Friday, September 18, 2009

Using waste to recover waste uranium

 Using bacteria and inositol phosphate, a chemical analogue of a cheap waste material from plants, researchers at Birmingham University have recovered uranium from the polluted waters from uranium mines. The same technology can also be used to clean up nuclear waste. Professor Lynne Macaskie, , presented the group's work to the Society for General Microbiology's meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
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