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Fracking “flowback” can contain polluting brine that originates in the formation being hydraulically fractured — according to a Penn State University study of drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation in Pennsylvania and Virginia 0

Citation — to study Lara O. Haluszczak, Arthur W. Rose, and Lee R. Kump, Geochemical evaluation of flowback brine from Marcellus gas wells in Pennsylvania, USA, Applied Geochemistry, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2012.10.002 (in press, early online publication, 25 October 2012) Citation — to press release Anne Danahy, Analysis of Marcellus flowback finds high levels of ancient brines, Penn [...]

Making it all up as we go along — the Max Planck Institute’s scientifically flawed revision of the global risk for catastrophic nuclear power radiation escapes — the group expects that contamination of more than 40 kilobecquerels per square meter will occur approximately every 50 years in Western Europe 0

Citation Jos Lelieveld, Daniel Kunkel, and Mark G. Lawrence, Global risk of radioactive fallout after major nuclear reactor accidents, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12(9): 4245-4258, doi:10.5194/acp-12-4245-2012 (12 May 2012) Note A currently free version of the paper is here. Good science in aid of bad premises turns into poor predictions The above paper is a [...]