Sign at shuttered uranium mill in Rifle, Colorado where bacteria were identified.
In a study published in in the April 2015 issue of Public Library of Science (PLoS) One, SEBS researchers and collaborators identified a bacterium that can detoxify uranium by accepting electrons in a method known as reduction. This uranium “breathing” organism has potential for cleaning up polluted groundwater at sites where uranium ore was processed to make nuclear weapons. Read more at Rutgers Today.
