Bacteria Used To Make Radioactive Metals Inert

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  1. think

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    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090908193444.htm

    how would say the phosphoric elements work into this .,?

    does anyone with some chemical experience? understand this? or do I go to some people I know as chemists ., >>>they are saying it is still radioactive even after digestion and sedimentation ., It really is a good idea you know.,
     
  2. Alpha_Geek

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    Radioactive Bacteria Destroys Tokyo, Demands Seat on UN Security Council!


    OK, seriously. The article mentions that the strains they currently have are difficult to control. I'd see that as an advantage myself.
     
  3. Jadzia

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    Radioactivity isn't a chemical process, it is a nuclear one. So it unaffected by things like chemical bonds and temperature.

    But being made into water insoluble compounds means it isn't going to be absorbed into biomass as readily.
     
  4. CuttingEdge100

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    You do realize the substances are still radioactive... they are just made into substances that are not soluble and won't react with the environment.

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  5. Alpha_Geek

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    So after the bacteria is done with the stuff, it's like the women I generally find myself attracted to: hot and noble. :)
     
  6. T'Girl

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    So while not a panacea, it could be useful in the handling and storage of some radioactive wastes.

    But not others.
     
  7. Anwar

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    Does this have anything to do with that slime lifeform they found a few years ago that was utterly immune to all radiation?
     
  8. CuttingEdge100

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    Anwar,

    I never heard of such a lifeform...
     
  9. Anwar

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    2 years ago there was this article about how these scientists who put a probe down into a toxic waste dump site found living slime on the probe when it came back up. Analysis of the slime showed it was utterly immune to radiation, and its' regenerative capability was so strong that you could hit it with a nuke and it would regenerate.
     
  10. T'Girl

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    I had car battery problem once, a type of fungus was inside, attached to the metal plates, living on the acid.
     
  11. Lindley

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    Well, we're screwed.
     
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