8/4/2011 Fracking Radiation Targeted By DOE, GE

Source: Forbes
Date: Aug. 3 2011 - 10:05 am
by: Jeff McMahon

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The Department of Energy and General Electric will spend $2 million over the next two years to remove naturally occurring radioactive materials from the fracking fluids produced by America’s booming shale-gas industry. The New York State Department of Health has identified Radium-226 as a radionuclide of particular concern in the Marcellus Shale formation deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains. ... Read full article here