Scientist sees fracking as the way to dispose of nuclear waste

[NickB79]

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

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]

[djean111]

1. What could possibly go wrong........

[Jackpine Radical]

2. What could possibly go wrong?

[Faux pas]

3. Yikes!

What, mankind hasn't done enough to destroy our planet????

[niyad]

4. PLEASE tell me that this bit of insanity is really from the Onion, PLEASE.

it does explain, at least, why I am seeing fracking ads here now (colorado has been fracking safely for 60 years).

[Cleita]

5. Another graduate of Bob Jones University?

I'm speechless.

[NickB79]

6. Leonid Germanovich's educational history

http://www.ce.gatech.edu/people/faculty/751/overview

Ph.D., Engineering Sciences (Specialization in Solids State Physics), Moscow State Mining University, 1982.

M.S. (includes B.Sc.), Engineering Physics (Specialization in Physical Processes in Mining), Moscow State Mining University, 1977.

In Soviet Russia, waste fracks you!