Bacteria survive at Hanford

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Bacteria found in Hanford waste 

Toxic radioactive soil below leaking tank unlikely place for life

By TOM PAULSON
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER 
May 26, 2004

Scientists studying the soil beneath a leaking Hanford nuclear waste
storage tank have discovered more than 100 species of bacteria living in
a toxic, radioactive environment that most would have thought
inhospitable to all forms of life. 

"Even in some of the most contaminated zones, we found a few living
organisms," said Fred Brockman, a microbial ecologist at the Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory in Richland. Brockman is presenting the
findings today at the American Society for Microbiology's annual meeting
in New Orleans.

For most living creatures, the nuclear and chemical waste in the
underground storage tanks on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is the
deadliest mixture of toxins and radioactive muck on the planet.

For certain bacteria, however, this toxic goop left over from decades of
nuclear weapons production appears to be just a second home. 

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/175015_bugs26.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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