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Uranium-chomping bacteria found in bowels of mine that once supplied Soviet nuclear weapons
In the heady days of the Cold War, the USSR extracted vast amounts of uranium from a mine in East Germany, much of it ...
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Bacteria can turn toxic uranium into stable, environmentally safe form
Uranium pollution has lingered in soil and water for decades, often long after mining operations have ended. In many places, ...
At a flooded uranium mine in Germany, bacteria pulled off an extremely useful chemical trick. Given glycerol and 130 days ...
Bacteria may offer an unexpected way to immobilize uranium in contaminated water. Uranium contamination is difficult to ...
A team of researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the University of Michigan has found that the rate of cooling in reactions dramatically affects the type of uranium ...
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Uranium-Eating Bacteria Leave Just 5% of The Radioactive Metal in Toxic Mine Water, Scientists Discover
(Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) One of the world's largest uranium mines, the Wismut GmbH Schlema-Alberoda ...
Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), together with Wismut GmbH and Spanish scientists from the University of Granada, have demonstrated for the first time that bacteria can ...
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