The shale deposits that have the US gas industry so excited were studied after WWII by the Atomic Energy Commission and declared to be the largest uranium resource in the US. Because the gas industry is now going after gas by drilling into a uranium resource their new gas is contaminated with many times the radiation their former product contained.

According to Dr. V.E.Swanson, author of: Oil Yield and Uranium Content of Black Shales: “the amount of uranium in these shales is extremely large reckoned in billions of tons of metallic uranium.

”Why aren’t companies mining for uranium? There is a catch.  Richer deposits were discovered.

Supposedly, when uranium becomes scarce they’re going to mine it from sea water. But first, they’ll go for what is in these shales. Sea water contains about 3 parts per billion uranium. The US shales that have all the new gas average out between 16 – 20 parts per million uranium, which is a concentration 5,000 times higher.

The richest gas and uranium bearing shales are former shallow ocean bottoms. Hence the immense extent. A large area of the US happens to be former ocean bottom. Here is a world map showing the oceans as they looked in Cretaceous times:

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