Re: Bacteria in Nuclear Reactors

[Debby Steva <dps3c@watt.seas.virginia.edu>]

They have also found bacteria as well as other higher life forms
thriving around
the thermal vents on the ocean floor where temp and pressure are very
high.

D. Steva

Scott D. Kniffin wrote:

> Just another note on this topic for high temp bacteria.  Some
> researchers
> found bacteria living in a thermal vent of Mt. St. Helens at several
> hundred degrees with all kinds of toxic (to us) vapors and compounds.
> Lots
> of sulphur too.  Never underestimate Ma Nature.
>
> Scott Kniffin
>
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> RSO, Unisys Corp. @ Lanham, MD
> CHO, Radiation Effects Facility, GSFC, NASA, Greenbelt, MD
>
> The opinions expressed here are my own.  They do not necessarily
> represent
> the views of Unisys Corporation or NASA.  This information has not
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> reviewed by my employer or supervisor.
>
> >Hi folks,
> >In the May/June issue of The Planetary Report (a publication for the
> >members of the Planetary Society, a space-exploration advocacy group
> which
> >is not noticeably [so far] an anti-nuc group.  See their web site at
> >http://www.planetary.org), Christopher Chyba said (in part) "bacteria
> have
> >adapted to survive the levels of radiation common in the cooling
> water of
> >nuclear reactors."
> >
> >I'd be a bit surprised to learn that bacteria could survive in the
> primary
> >or secondary loops of a power reactor...but there's a bunch of other
> >possibilities.  Does anyone know anything about bacteria in reactor
> cooling
> >water?
> >Thanx, ron
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