Bacteria 'wires' clean up uranium

BBC Tuesday 6th September, 2011

Tiny filaments growing from the surface of bacteria could help to improve the efficiency of uranium removal from contaminated waters. Uranium mining and atomic weapons testing during the Cold War era led to the contamination of sediments and groundwaters by toxic soluble uranium. Some clean-up methods use bacteria to solidify the uranium in sedim...

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