Fracking as the way to dispose of nuclear waste

[Ichingcarpenter]

SAN FRANCISCO — Nuclear waste could one day be disposed of by injecting it into fracking boreholes in the Earth, at least if one scientist's idea takes hold.

The method, presented here Monday at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, would mix nuclear waste with other heavy materials, and inject it a few miles below the Earth's surface into drilled holes. The key is that, unlike fluids used in most hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," the nuclear slurry would be heavier than the rock in which it is injected.

"It's basic physics here — if it's heavier than rock, the fracture will propagate down," said study co-author Leonid Germanovich, a physicist and civil and environmental engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In theory, then, the nuclear waste would inch downward, going deeper into the Earth over time. [5 Everyday Things That Are Radioactive]

But the idea is still theoretical, and at least one expert thinks there are too many practical and safety concerns for the scheme to work.



http://www.nbcnews.com/science/scientist-sees-fracking-way-dispose-nuclear-waste-2D11732363



ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

What could possibly go wrong on so many levels?

[spanone]

1. i can't believe half intelligent humans actually think this shit up.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. You'd think there is a conscious effort

to destroy this planet.

[spanone]

3. either that or greed has absolutely blinded these fools

[DURHAM D]

5. Exactly.

These energy assholes won't be satisfied until they have made it impossible for animals or humans to live on the land, drink the water or grow any crops.

Where do they plan to move to? Perhaps they have a colony on another planet that we don't know about.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. With ideas like this

it gives more credence to David Icke and V's suppositions.

I can't believe NBC science news ran this story either.

[KoKo]

4. Sounds like some Think Tank supported theory to get Support for Fracking.

They are always so clever. Bet the MSM will have that little theory embedded in every news story today.

[winter is coming]

6. Sounds like a SyFy movie: Nuclear Earthquake.

[Orrex]

8. Atomic Sharkquake

This. Must. Happen.

[Egalitarian Thug]

9. They already tried it @ Rocky Flats with the predictably bad results.

They did manage to wake up a fault that had been inactive for thousands of years.

[n2doc]

10. Howabout let's inject it into a dormant volcano!

Or maybe even an active one! That's the ticket!


Given the squawking about how radioactive waste would leak into groundwaters at Yucca Mountain, I can't imagine this will go far.

[Tikki]

11. You must know…like with old nuke sites like Hanford…over 60 years and they still don't have...

a clear idea what to do with the nuclear waste.

It is so sad.

One scientist or group of scientist will pit their idea of waste
disposal against another and on and on for decades and decades. All at the tax payers expense.

Contractors start a maintainence project and then stop while the latest, greatest is talked
about, plans drawn up and then dismissed. All at tax payers expense.

And ultimately the nuclear waste is left to rot and leak in storage tanks underground.

It is beyond comprehension that we let this happen.



The Tikkis