Halliburton Loses Radioactive Rod, The National Guard Is Called In to Help
05:19 pm / September 19, 2012 / NPR
by Eyder Peralta
You thought this happened only to Homer Simpson.
But, no, it happened in real life to oilfield workers in Texas: During
the course of their work, they lost a radioactive rod. That's the
story our friends at State Impact Texas are telling this afternoon.
We'll let you click over to get the full story about how even the
National Guard has been enlisted, but here are the basics:
"Sometime last Monday, September 11, a three-man team of
Halliburton oilfield workers lost a radioactive rod used in hydraulic
fracturing, or "fracking." The crew believes it was lost in an area of
about 130 squaremiles, somewhere between a well site in Pecos and the
crew's destination south of Odessa. The tool was in the back of their
truck, and at some point they noticed that the truck's lock wasn't in
place (it was in the back of the truck) and the rod was missing. They
went back to Pecos to see if it had been left at the drilling site,
but it wasn't there."
--
Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, at
the very least you should know the nature of that evil.
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