August 25, 2014
By Keith Methany
Saying (click here) he remains “deeply committed to protecting public health and Michigan’s precious water resources, ” Gov. Rick Snyder today announced plans to form a panel of experts to look at the state’s standards for disposing of low-level radioactive materials.
The announcement follows a Free Press article Tuesday on a Pennsylvania oil and gas development company’s plans to ship to a Belleville area hazardous waste landfill up to 36 tons of low-level radioactive sludge that’s a byproduct of the fracking process. The sludge was rejected by landfills in western Pennsylvania, and its later shipment to a landfill in West Virginia was halted by the state and voluntarily discontinued by the company, Range Resources, as West Virginia reforms its laws for handling such waste....
The substance Snyder wants to bury in Michigan is referred to as TENORM (Technologically-Enhanced, Naturally-Occurring Radioactive Materials)
Technologically-Enhanced, Naturally-Occurring Radioactive Material (TENORM) is produced when activities such as uranium mining, or sewage sludge treatment, concentrate or expose radioactive materials that occur naturally in ores, soils, water, or other natural materials.
TENORM is classified as a radionucleotide.
Radionuclides (click here)
Increased risk of cancer and in the case of uranium kidney toxicity.
By Keith Methany
Saying (click here) he remains “deeply committed to protecting public health and Michigan’s precious water resources, ” Gov. Rick Snyder today announced plans to form a panel of experts to look at the state’s standards for disposing of low-level radioactive materials.
The announcement follows a Free Press article Tuesday on a Pennsylvania oil and gas development company’s plans to ship to a Belleville area hazardous waste landfill up to 36 tons of low-level radioactive sludge that’s a byproduct of the fracking process. The sludge was rejected by landfills in western Pennsylvania, and its later shipment to a landfill in West Virginia was halted by the state and voluntarily discontinued by the company, Range Resources, as West Virginia reforms its laws for handling such waste....
The substance Snyder wants to bury in Michigan is referred to as TENORM (Technologically-Enhanced, Naturally-Occurring Radioactive Materials)
Technologically-Enhanced, Naturally-Occurring Radioactive Material (TENORM) is produced when activities such as uranium mining, or sewage sludge treatment, concentrate or expose radioactive materials that occur naturally in ores, soils, water, or other natural materials.
TENORM is classified as a radionucleotide.
Radionuclides (click here)
Increased risk of cancer and in the case of uranium kidney toxicity.
