Re: News Article: A new place to store toxic waste?

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

I guess it was news to the French researchers who

wrote the article.  They may have also released their

work as "news" to enhance their bid for funding.



--- Susan L Gawarecki <loc@icx.net> wrote:

> Aquitards are rocks with poor porosity and

> permeability, like 

> unfractured shale and gypsum (they are basically the

> opposite of 

> aquifers).  The salt that WIPP is excavated into is

> an aquitard.  The 

> shale in Oak Ridge that radioactive wastes were

> injected into is an 

> aquitard.  Maybe this is "news" to some, but not to

> geologists or those 

> working in the rad/hazwaste field.

> -- 

>

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John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

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