Researchers Uncover Bacteria That Consume Uranium in an Old Soviet Mine
One of the world’s largest uranium mining operations, the Wismut GmbH Schlema-Alberoda mine in the former Soviet-controlled East Germany, left a lasting environmental burden after decades of extraction. However, scientists have discovered that the contaminated water filling the abandoned mine may contain a natural answer to the pollution problem. Microorganisms that have adapted to the […]
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