A nuclear meltdown is today's hydraulic fracturing. “Fracking,” as it is more commonly known, is the process of injecting water into underground wells in order to obtain highly dispersed natural gas in rock. Today we live in a world of innovation and efficiency and where these ideas bring us closer to a better future. The fracking method pumps large quantities of fluids, made up of water, chemicals and solid materials, into underground wells that open up and fracture surrounding rock formations. With this new opening, natural gas can begin to flow outwards, facilitating its extraction. Hydraulic fracturing is a heated topic that has many negatives that far outweigh the positives. But what do we consider big, bad and dangerous? It stimulates the economy, cuts our national dependence on foreign oil in half, and leaves a much lighter carbon footprint in our atmosphere. With all this potential at our disposal, the big oil industries have made us neglect one aspect: hydraulic fracturing is toxic and destructive to human health. Numerous studies commissioned by Congress have shown that fracking is actually very dangerous and extremely dangerous to our ecosystem. Now, while fracking can be said to be an ingenious way to become energy independent from foreign oil, create jobs and burn cleaner than fossil fuels, it has been shown to be more dangerous to humans and to the environment due to contamination, changes to the Earth's plate tectonics and radiation. Hydraulic fracturing is efficient, fast and cheap, but what toll is it taking on humans? Fracturing is the process of injecting high volumes of water mixed with chemicals and solid objects to help shatter underground rock formations. The consequences are the problem because the high volume of wastewater remaining, engineers have no idea what to do with it