Texans can
breathe easier: The radioactive waste Halliburton fracking surveyors lost last
month has finally been found.
Gordon Duff, the
senior editor of Veterans Today, criticized the U.S. corporations and their
for-profit actions harming the environment and said, “We don’t need to worry
about Fukushima. Apparently we take our nuclear waste, throw it in the back of a
pick-up truck and drive around until the wind blows it away or it falls off on
the side of the road. And we found this nuclear waste. We have to wonder what’s
out there (…) everywhere in America.”
The UAE-based
oil services company told reporters this weekend that an oilfield worker found
the rod of americium-241/beryllium alongside a highway near Pecos,
Texas.
Gordon
continued, “This is not the end of the story; it’s not the beginning of the
story. This is a small amount of waste that we found, we have no idea what’s out
there.”
Americium-241/beryllium is used for a variety of industrial and
medical purposes and in this case was needed for equipment used to identify
potential sites for natural gas drilling. It is a "Category 3" radioactive
substance, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA).
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