[ RadSafe ] Publication : Bioremediation of Radionuclides: EmergingTechnologies

[John Jacobus]

Mike,
I did not see anything about conversion of
radionuclides to stable nuclides.  I believe it is
about remediation of mixed waste sites.

--- "Brennan, Mike  (DOH)" <Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV>
wrote:

> I find the abstract and the introduction at the
> linked site distressing.
> They are full of incorrect statements of the
> problems and implied
> solutions that seem to defy some well demonstrated
> physical properties.
> 
> "There are multiple radioactive waste dumping sites,
> that, if exposed to
> the general population, may cause serious
> life-threatening disorders."
> 
> Not exposing the general population to waste is the
> entire concept
> behind waste control measure in every field,
> including hazardous wastes,
> medical wastes, industrial wastes, municipal wastes,
> dead bodies, and
> sewage.  Indeed, taken as a waste that is actually,
> at this moment,
> shortening the lives of members of the general
> public, radioactive waste
> may well be last on this list.  If you postulate the
> worst accident
> possible from a radioactive waste site you still
> won't come close to
> what happens fairly frequently around the world when
> drinking water gets
> contaminated with sewage.  Industrial waste disposed
> of into the air and
> water are at this moment causing "serious
> life-threatening disorders" to
> millions, and will kill thousands this year.  I am
> not saying that
> radioactive waste should be treated in a careless
> manner, but get your
> priorities straight.
> 
> "Currently, no efficient technology is available
> that can store the
> radioactive wastes with adequate safety."
> 
> Stockyard waste.  Efficient safe storage or disposal
> of radioactive
> waste isn't even particularly difficult, though you
> have to pay
> attention to what you are doing.  The problems are
> political, not
> technical. 
> 
> "Therefore, bioremediation of
> radionuclides/radioactive waste is an
> unavoidable necessity that has been tried using
> biotransformation,
> bioaccumulation, biosorption, biostimulation, and
> bioaugmentaion, with
> limited success. Genetic engineering has been
> implemented to develop an
> organism that can effectively detoxify radionuclides
> along with other
> organic pollutants present as co-contaminants in the
> radioactive waste
> sites."
> 
> If this is discussing bio applications that make
> cleaning up
> contamination easier (NOTE: "waste site" and
> "contaminated site" are not
> synonymous), cool.  If this is talking about
> biologic processes that
> convert radioactive isotopes into stable isotopes or
> changes the rate of
> decay, then I must have missed a memo.  Last I heard
> there wasn't even a
> theoretical basis for something like that.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
> Behalf Of John Jacobus
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 7:57 AM
> To: radsafe; know_nukes at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Publication : Bioremediation of
> Radionuclides:
> EmergingTechnologies
> 
> >From another list server
> 
> OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology
> Bioremediation of Radionuclides: Emerging
> Technologies
> -------------------------
> 
> To cite this paper:
> Raj Kumar, Sompal Singh, Om V. Singh. OMICS: A
> Journal of Integrative
> Biology. 2007, 11(3): 295-304. 
> 
> 

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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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