Sentences with phrase «natural radioactive gas»

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Wastewater from natural gas drilling in New York State is radioactive, as high as 267 times the limit safe for discharge into the environment and thousands of times the limit safe for people to drink

The returning mixture, which contains radioactive materials and some of the natural gas from the geological formation, is supposed to be captured.

2 Fusion On Tap Plasma physicist Eric Lerner has a dream: a form of nuclear energy so clean it generates no radioactive waste, so safe it can be located in the heart of a city, and so inexpensive it provides virtually unlimited power for the dirt - cheap price of $ 60 per kilowatt — far below the $ 1,000 - per - kilowatt cost of electricity from natural gas.

All this would be of substantially less concern if New York were like most of the other states that produce some radioactive waste during natural gas drilling.

Located about a mile underground, the formation's shale contains natural gas reserves and highly saline water laced with salts, metals and radioactive elements.

Part of this heat is generated by the natural decay of radioactive element in the rocks, and part of the heat is left over from the formation of the Earth five billion years ago — when gravity pulled together bits of gas and dust to form our planet.