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Japan: Six Fukushima workers tested after exposure radioactive water
2013-10-09 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Six workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant have been exposed to radiation in the latest water leak in a week. The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), said several tonnes of radioactive water had spilled from a treatment facility after one of the workers mistakenly removed a pipe. The workers, who were wearing protective clothing and masks, came into contact with the water and were being checked for any external and internal contamination, a Tepco spokesman said. The accident...
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Radioactive Water From Fracking Found in Pennsylvania Creek According to Duke Study
2013-10-04 18:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A Duke University study published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, found dangerously high levels of radiation in a creek near a drilling wastewater treatment facility in Pennsylvania. The study, Impacts of Shale Gas Wastewater Disposal on Water Quality in Western Pennsylvania, was conducted over a period of two years from the summer of 2010 to the fall of 2012 and analyzed water samples discharged downstream of the Josephine Brine Treatment Facility into Blacklick...
Frackers are flushing radioactive waste into rivers
2013-10-04 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Frackers often treat their wastewater a little bit like sewage, passing it through water treatment plants and then flushing it into streams and rivers. It may be an improvement on pumping the stuff back into the ground, which can trigger earthquakes, but new research reveals that this can be a dangerously shitty approach to managing frack water. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, entails injecting water and chemicals into the ground to break up underground rocks and release oil and gas. When that...
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Fracking May Be Polluting River With Radioactive Waste
2013-10-03 08:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Fracking may be contaminating a Pennsylvania river with radioactive waste, a Duke University study to be published this week shows. Scientists found elevated levels of radioactivity in river water at a site where treated fracking wastewater from oil and gas production sites in western Pennsylvanias Marcellus shale is released into a creek. The natural gas-rich Marcellus shale is seeing a drilling boom, part of a nationwide rush to use hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, techniques to extract...
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Fukushima Radioactive Plume to Hit the U.S. by 2014
2013-09-03 15:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CleanTechnica: The first radioactive ocean plume released by the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster will finally be reaching the shores of the U.S. sometime in 2014, according to a new study from the University of New South Wales--a full three or so years after the date of the disaster. Surface (0200m) of Cesium-137 concentrations (Bq/m3) by (a)April 2012, (b) April 2014 (c) April 2016 and (d) April 2021. Image Credit: University of New South Wales Many researchers, and also officials from the World...
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