Bacteria may offer breakthrough solution for uranium pollution, researchers say

Nanoparticles form in bacterial membranes. PIC COURTESY/HZDR

Uranium contamination is difficult to manage because the metal can change chemical form. However, a new study suggests that naturally occurring bacteria may be able to stabilise it.

Researchers found that microbes living in water from a flooded uranium mine removed nearly all of the dissolved uranium and converted much of it into an unexpectedly stable compound after receiving glycerol as a food source.

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