Microbes for Bioremediation

The San Francisco Chronicle has a piece discussing current efforts to clean up nuclear waste sites with microbes. Current treatment procedures generally involve pumping out the contaminated groundwater, filtering it, and pumping it back, which is rather expensive.

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Re:Nuclear energy is clean

[1u3hr]

average Joe knows only three things about nuclear energy:
1. It makes bombs go boom
2. It's baaaaad and kills everyone

Is Joe wrong in thinking that? Why does Iran want nuclear power when it has oceans of oil? Not to mention Pakistan, India, N Korea, Israel, South Africa -- they want[ed] nuclear technology because it can go boom.

It's just like in the movies [link to the China Syndrome]

What does Joe think about Chernobyl?

Actually, I'm not against nuclear power on principle, but it is a huge risk, not so much for waste, but that it easily segues into nuclear weapons.