SCIENTISTS DISCOVER BACTERIA THAT LOCK TOXIC URANIUM INTO A STABLE FORM

Deep underground, bacteria may be capable of doing something remarkable: trapping toxic uranium before it spreads. When researchers fed microbes in uranium-contaminated mine water with glycerol, about 95% of the dissolved uranium disappeared within 130 days.

All Top News -- ScienceDaily reports that deep underground, bacteria may be capable of doing something remarkable: trapping toxic uranium before it spreads.

The report adds: When researchers fed microbes in uranium-contaminated mine water with glycerol, about 95% of the dissolved uranium disappeared within 130 days.

The bacteria helped convert it into an unusually stable uranium compound that had rarely been observed before.

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