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How slick water and black shale in fracking mix to supply radioactive waste
Research explains how radioactive radium transfers to wastewater within the widely-used methodology to extract oil and fuel. Geology News — ScienceDaily
Radioactive Elements in New Mexican Rock Reveal Longest Earthquake Record
White calcite deposits in rocks from a fault line in New Mexico helped scientists create a record-long earthquake record. Photo by Laurel Goodwin and Randy Williams Using radioactive elements trapped in crystallized, cream-colored “veins” in New Mexican rock, geologists have … Continue reading
Geologists use radioactive clock to document longest earthquake record
Using radioactive elements trapped in crystallized, cream-colored ‘veins’ in New Mexican rock, geologists have peered back in time more than 400,000 years to illuminate a record of earthquakes along the Loma Blanca fault in the Rio Grande rift. It is … Continue reading
Can radioactive waste be immobilized in glass for millions of years?
Glass produced from a high level radioactive waste simulant. How do you handle nuclear waste that will be radioactive for millions of years, keeping it from harming people and the environment? It isn’t easy, but Rutgers researcher Ashutosh Goel has … Continue reading
bijoux-et-mineraux: Radioactive Vandenbrandeite – Musonoi Mine,…
bijoux-et-mineraux: Radioactive Vandenbrandeite – Musonoi Mine, Kolwesi, Katanga, Congo Geology Nerd
Radioactive matter migrates more quickly through fractured carbonate rock
Natural radioactivity from uranium-bearing rock, N Saskatchewan. ( Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have found that radioactive matter migrates more quickly in carbonate bedrock formations once it has leaked from a tank from near surface waste sites … Continue reading
Cancer: radioactive patch effectively
(ANSA) – new DELHI, JUN 21 – a radioactive patch could be able to heal 80% of patients with basal cell carcinoma, a common skin cancer. The device was described in the journal of Nuclear Medicine. Researchers in All India … Continue reading