From Nucleotidings:
...The main use of fracking is for gas and oil productions. However, there are a number of other uses such as stimulating groundwater wells, preconditioning rock strata for mining, disposing of waste water and other fluids by injecting them into deep rock strata, measuring stresses in the earth, geothermal generation of electricity and the sequestration of carbon dioxide to reduce global warming.Hydraulic fracking diagram from Mike Norton:
Back during the Soviet Union’s flirtation with the peaceful use of nuclear explosions, there were plans put forward that were later abandoned to use nuclear bombs for natural gas fracking.
Recently a United States company, Uranium Energy Corporation (UEC) in Texas, has announced that it is exploring a solution to the uranium supply problem in the U.S. Domestic production of uranium is down in the U.S. The uranium and plutonium that we have been getting from dismantling Russian nuclear weapons will no longer be available for conversion into reactor fuel. Other countries are competing for uranium on the international market. UEC wants to use fracking to dissolve uranium in rock strata and pump it to the surface for extraction and refinement. Opponents of the plan point out that while oil and natural gas fracking takes place miles down, below the aquifers that supply water to Texans, the uranium fracking would be less than one thousand feet below the surface and would pollute the ground water with uranium and other substances lock in the rock. UEC has responded that it is doing everyone a favor by pumping out water that is already contaminated and injectioning cleaner water into the aquifer. Critics are not comforted by this claim....MORE
