Nuclear bioremediation help needed.

I am helping someone in Australia who is helping someone in South Africa and Canada. The problem is, "... uranium contaminated water flowing on to her site and wants to know how to deal with it?"

I found:
Patience Pays Off With Methanol For Uranium Bioremediation

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223121411.htm

& I also found this from Stanford.
Remediation of Uranium Contaminated Water in Fry Canyon, Utah

https://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/research/highlights_archive/u_ha_prb.html




Anyone else have useful, constructive methods on how to deal with this problem?:think:

 

Well I would hire a excavator and build a giant dam/drain and push the water away from the site if possible. If you are wanting to try and filter you could use carbon filters (buy a few tons of charcoal and put in into wire cage bricks which sit on the in-flow. Active carbon is really expensive, but you could make biochar and make sure you hit it with water to quench it which will help improve the filtering properties.

Geological Survey (U.S.) - 1956 - Geology. Seems to back up my idea of using char filters
https://books.google.com.au/books?i...=onepage&q=plants that absorb uranium&f=false

A link with regards to tumbleweed absorbing uranium
https://www.geosociety.org/news/pr/04-33.htm

 

The other day on a podcast I heard Paul Stamets of fungi perfecti talking about mushroom bioremediation of irradiation around Chernobel. Here is a link to the podcast. You can see the two with Paul Stamets near the top of the list.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/explorations-in-permaculture/id268463650

Good Luck,
Anna

 

The way we do it in Australia is to have the uranium mine next to a World Heritage listed park known for its wetland ecology. Not sure how effective it is though...

 

Matto has the idea. Then put the local indigenous population in there to live and work.

 

Wetlands are actually really good at filtering heavy metals out of water. A friend of mine did his PhD on this very topic.

 

Sue the bastards. Isn't nuclear contamination illegal there? any kind of contamination of water is usually illegal. Make them clean up the site and stop the contamination.