Anticontamination bacteria

Researchers at the Oak Rigde North America Laboratory have discovered a bacterium to treat radioactive contaminated water.

Researchers at the Oak Rigde North America Laboratory have discovered a bacterium to treat radioactive contaminated water. Micrococcus luteus is a bacterium that does not harm humans and is fixed in extracts.

Strontium is found in waters used in the nuclear industry and this microorganism generates a precipitate where strontium particles are concentrated. This facilitates water cleaning.

In accidents like the one that occurred in Chernobil ten years ago this treatment would be cheap and less harmful to the environment.

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