<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d466ff1a-6c05-4d11-9a9e-e44538eff3b1/C68B4199-33FF-44DA-99DA-54A0C35FB9BC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/18/agricultural-waste-can-clean-up-nuclear-waste-researchers-find/" href="http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/18/agricultural-waste-can-clean-up-nuclear-waste-researchers-find/" style="font-size: 11px;">cleantechnica.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/18/agricultural-waste-can-clean-up-nuclear-waste-researchers-find/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link: Agricultural Waste Can Clean up Nuclear Waste, Researchers Find" rel="bookmark" href="http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/18/agricultural-waste-can-clean-up-nuclear-waste-researchers-find/">Agricultural Waste Can Clean up Nuclear Waste, Researchers Find</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/18/agricultural-waste-can-clean-up-nuclear-waste-researchers-find/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/cleantechnica.com/img/FEA702CA-1E9E-4DBD-8039-ED127B7626B5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/18/agricultural-waste-can-clean-up-nuclear-waste-researchers-find/"><P>Inositol phosphate is insoluble, so it forms a precipitate on the bacteria. The E. Coli then broke down the precipitate; releasing the phosphate molecules which then attached to uranium molecules to form uranium phosphate, which can then be harvested to recover the uranium.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/18/agricultural-waste-can-clean-up-nuclear-waste-researchers-find/"><P>What they have developed is a way for one contaminant to clean up another. <SPAN id="more-3430"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/18/agricultural-waste-can-clean-up-nuclear-waste-researchers-find/"><P>Lynne Macaskie from the University of Birmingham in the UK led the research on radioactive waters and presented the findings at the Society for General Microbiology’s meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/18/agricultural-waste-can-clean-up-nuclear-waste-researchers-find/"><P>Interestingly the UK has no uranium mining industry, but it does produce a significant amount of uranium in waste from nuclear plants. The process could be as effective with waste uranium from nuclear power production, the researchers claim. For energy security as well as health risks, both sources are worth cleaning up.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C68B4199-33FF-44DA-99DA-54A0C35FB9BC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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