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Radiation-eating Fungi

Posted by samzenpus on from the writing-the-script-now dept.

SEWilco writes "Fungus growths have been found in many extreme environments, including the Chernobyl reactor walls. Some fungi have been found whose growth is enhanced by radiation. I wonder if someone saved samples of the MIR-eating fungi."

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  1. Re:Radiation Hormesis by James+McP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Huh, I wonder if that's where the idea for the "giant mutant animal" movies of the 50s came from.

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  2. Re:Original headline was correct... by weapon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Er, Ukraine. Chernobyl is in Ukraine. Ukraine most definitely is not Russia. Yes these days Chernobyl is in Ukraine, which is not in Russia, but in 1986 when the melt down occurred, it was in Russia and back then it was Soviet Russia, the the GP was correct:

    Remember, Chernobyl was in Soviet Russia. and that's my two cents
  3. Still the wrong subject by Askmum · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is not "radiation eating", this is "radiation enabling".
    Eating radiation implies that the radiation is removed or converted. There is no mention of that.
    That's the same like saying "solar rays eating fungi discovered".