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Somewhere in West Texas is a 7-inch radioactive cylinder that Halliburton would like to find. Anyone who comes across it is advised to keep their distance.The oil field services company lost track of the device, which is used to assess potential sites for hydraulic fracturing, last Tuesday while trying to transport it from Pecos to a well site near Odessa 130 miles away. A special unit of the Texas National Guard has now stepped in to aid Halliburton in a search for the cylinder, according to Bloomberg.
"It's not something that produces radiation in an extremely dangerous form," said Chris Van Deusen, a spokesman for the Texas Department of State Health Services. "But its best for people to stay back, 20 or 25 feet."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49045210/
Makes one feel a whole lot better about fracking.
a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)This has all the makings of those old 70's "barren wasteland" movies.
ANOTHER reason not to visit Texas.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)MineralMan
(146,324 posts)Many legitimate industrial purposes. I'm not sure what this device is, but it isn't something that's going to lay waste to large tracts of land or anything of the sort. It will be well marked with radioactivity symbols. If you run across something so marked, notify someone about it. Other than that, it's not going to harm you, unless you foolishly pick it up and put it under your pillow or something.
From another source:
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/us/radioactive-device-for-fracking-is-lost-653295/#ixzz26aVgx8qh
justgamma
(3,666 posts)Electrocuted soldiers taking showers in Iraq, Gulf oil spill, lost radioactive cylinder. Are these guys totally incompetent or what?
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Best for anyone to stay MILES away from it and its container.
MadHound
(34,179 posts)Not the first time something like this has happened, not the last either.