Unconventional oil and gas development and ambient particle radioactivity

Unconventional oil and natural gas development (UOGD) expanded extensively in the United States from the early 2000s. However, the influence of UOGD on the radioactivity of ambient particulate is not well understood. We collected the ambient particle radioactivity (PR) measurements of RadNet, a nati...

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Autores principales: Li, Longxiang, Blomberg, Annelise J., Spengler, John D., Coull, Brent A., Schwartz, Joel D., Koutrakis, Petros
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7553919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33051463
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18226-w
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author Li, Longxiang
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description Unconventional oil and natural gas development (UOGD) expanded extensively in the United States from the early 2000s. However, the influence of UOGD on the radioactivity of ambient particulate is not well understood. We collected the ambient particle radioactivity (PR) measurements of RadNet, a nationwide environmental radiation monitoring network. We obtained the information of over 1.5 million wells from the Enverus database. We investigated the association between the upwind UOGD well count and the downwind gross-beta radiation with adjustment for environmental factors governing the natural emission and transport of radioactivity. Our statistical analysis found that an additional 100 upwind UOGD wells within 20 km is associated with an increase of 0.024 mBq/m(3) (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.020, 0.028 mBq/m(3)) in the gross-beta particle radiation downwind. Based on the published health analysis of PR, the widespread UOGD could induce adverse health effects to residents living close to UOGD by elevating PR.
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spelling pubmed-75539192020-10-19 Unconventional oil and gas development and ambient particle radioactivity Li, Longxiang Blomberg, Annelise J. Spengler, John D. Coull, Brent A. Schwartz, Joel D. Koutrakis, Petros Nat Commun Article Unconventional oil and natural gas development (UOGD) expanded extensively in the United States from the early 2000s. However, the influence of UOGD on the radioactivity of ambient particulate is not well understood. We collected the ambient particle radioactivity (PR) measurements of RadNet, a nationwide environmental radiation monitoring network. We obtained the information of over 1.5 million wells from the Enverus database. We investigated the association between the upwind UOGD well count and the downwind gross-beta radiation with adjustment for environmental factors governing the natural emission and transport of radioactivity. Our statistical analysis found that an additional 100 upwind UOGD wells within 20 km is associated with an increase of 0.024 mBq/m(3) (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.020, 0.028 mBq/m(3)) in the gross-beta particle radiation downwind. Based on the published health analysis of PR, the widespread UOGD could induce adverse health effects to residents living close to UOGD by elevating PR. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7553919/ /pubmed/33051463 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18226-w Text en © This is a U.S. government work and not under copyright protection in the U.S.; foreign copyright protection may apply 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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