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Microbes Generate Electricity While Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste

By Guest PostSeptember 8, 2011Environmentallison speers, conductive pili, dena cologgi, electricity, environmental disasters, gemma reguera, geobacter bacteria, groundwater, michigan state university, microbes, microbial fuel cells, microorganisms, nanowires, nuclear contamination, nuclear waste, polluted sites, production of nuclear fuel, radioactive material, sanela lampa pastirk, shelly kelly, toxic metals, uranium

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Researchers at Michigan State University have unraveled the mystery of how microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste and other toxic metals.

Details of the process, which can be improved and patented, are published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The implications could eventually benefit sites forever changed by nuclear contamination, said Gemma Reguera, MSU microbiologist. (more…)

Soil pollution from PCBs

These are compounds that were produced as industrial chemicals (man-made organic compounds, synthetic) and used in lubricating oils, paints, in carbonless copy paper (non-carbon copy paper – an alternative to carbon paper), in electrical insulators and in many other industrial and commercial products.

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Microbes Generate Electricity While Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste

Soil pollution from PCBs