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Where does all the radioactive fracking waste go?


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Where does all the radioactive fracking waste go?
A year-long investigation finds a major West Texas disposal site with a patchy record is also importing radioactive oilfield waste from abroad.
Image Credit: George Etheredge/Rolling Stone
On May 8, 2017, a drum of radioactive oilfield waste from Australia
arrived at a remote West Texas disposal site operated by local oil and
gas environmental services company, Lotus LLC. This drum of waste
entered the United States aboard a Singapore Airlines cargo jet,
appropriately packaged in a steel drum. According to files from the
Railroad Commission of Texas, the state’s main oil and gas regulator, it ....

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