Report Finds Additional Radioactive Materials in Gas-Well Drill Cuttings
Drilling horizontal wells for hydraulic fracturing operations results in a large amount of gooey solid waste, or drill cuttings. In 2011, natural gas exploration and extraction in the Marcellus Shale formation produced an estimated 2.37 million tons of cuttings in Pennsylvania alone with almost all of it ending up in landfills, according to a review published in Environmental Practice.
Solid waste from horizontal gas wells contains radioactive material that ends up in landfills.
The researchers devised a method to test the drill cuttings from horizontal wells in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania. In addition to uranium-238 and radium-226, the researchers report the samples contained elevated levels of the environmentally persistent radioactive isotopes uranium-234, thorium-230, lead-210 and polonium-210. A simulation of leaching over a range of acidity levels suggested that at low pH, uranium isotopes readily leached from drill cuttings, which raises questions as to whether uranium will seep into the environment from a landfill. Other isotopes appeared less leachable under the conditions tested.
The authors acknowledge funding from the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research at the University of Iowa.
Michael Bernstein
Environmental Science & Technology Letters
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2016/12/report-finds-additional-radioactive.html
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