Bioremediation of 60Co from simulated spent decontamination solutions

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 328, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 1-14

  Rashmi, K ^a   Sowjanya, T Naga ^a   Mohan, P Maruthi ^a   Balaji, V ^b   Venkateswaran, G ^b  

^a OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Chemical decontamination; Fungi; Nuclear reactor

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECONTAMINATION; FUNGI; IRON; NICKEL; SOLUTIONS;

PICKUP CAPACITIES; SPENT DECONTAMINATION;

BIOREMEDIATION;

CHROMIUM; COBALT 60; EDETIC ACID; IRON; NICKEL; STAINLESS STEEL; COBALT; HEAVY METAL;

BIOREMEDIATION; COBALT ISOTOPE; FUNGUS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BIOMASS; BIOREMEDIATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVALUATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS MUTANT; MUCOR; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REACTOR; PENICILLIUM CITRINUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOPUS; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TRICHODERMA VIRIDE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FUNGI; MUCOR; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM CITRINUM; RHIZOPUS; RHIZOPUS MICROSPORUS VAR. CHINENSIS; TRICHODERMA; VIRUSES (INFECTIVE AGENTS);

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; EDETIC ACID; FUNGI; METALS, HEAVY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE;

EID: 2942748221     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.02.009     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Bradbury D, Smee TL, Williams, MR. 1986. Recent reactor decontamination experience with LOMI/CANDECON and related processes. In: Proceedings of International Conference on water chemistry of Nuclear reactor systems (4), British Nuclear Energy Society (BNES) London, 257
2. Dances A., Haile D., Yuan D.S., Klausner R.D. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae copper transport protein (ctrlp). Biochemical characterization, regulation by copper and physilogic role in copper uptake. J. Biol. Chem. 269:1994;25 660-25 667
3. Eitinger T., Freidrich B. Cloning, nucleotide sequence and heterologous expression of a high-affinity nickel transport gene from Alcaligenes eutrophus. J. Biol. Chem. 266:1991;3222-3227
4. Gadd G.M. Interactions of fungi with toxic metals. New Phytol. 124:(25):1993;25-60
5. Gadd G.M., White C. Heavy metal and radionuclide accumulation and toxicity in fungi and yeast. Poole R.K., Gadd G.M. Metal-microbe interactions. 1989;19-38 IRL press, Oxford
6. Galagan J.E. The genome sequence of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa. Nature. 24:2003;859-867
7. Gokhale A.S., Venkateswaran G., Moorthy P.N. Waste treatment by ion-exchange and precipitation methods after LOMI decontamination. Waste management. 14:1994;703-708
8. Hassan B., Daly M.J. Engineering Deinococcus radiodurans for metal remediation in radioactive mixed waste environments. Nat. Biotechnol. 18:2000;85-90
9. 2+ by Neurospora crassa. Biotechnol. Lett. 18:1996;205-208
10. Komeda H., Kobayashi M., Shimizu S. A novel transporter involved in cobalt uptake. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 94:1997;36-44
11. Kuyucak N., Volesky B. The mechanism of cobalt biosorption. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 33:1989;823-831
12. Letschert PJC, Butter LM, Huijbregts WMM, Segal MG. 1987 Experimental decontamination of a reactor water clean-up line at the Dodewaard nuclear power plant by means of the LOMI process. Kema Sci. Tech. Reports 5
13. Mobley H.L.T., Garner R.M., Bauerfeind P. Helicobacter pylori nickel-transport gene nixA: synthesis of catalytically active urease in Escherichia coli independent of growth conditions. Mol. Microbiol. 16:1995;97-109
14. 137Cs speciation in soils. Microbial degradation processes in radioactive waste repository and in nuclear fuel storage areas, 81-85
15. Radisky D., Kaplan J. Regulation of transition metal transport across the yeast plasma membrane. J. Biol. Chem. 274:(8):1999;4481-4484
16. Sajani L.S., Maruthi Mohan P. Characterization of a cobalt-resistant mutant of Neurospora crassa with transport block. Biometals. 11:1997;33-40
17. Segal MG, Swan T, Skelton RL, Mack J. 1986. Current developments with chemical decontamination reagents. In: Proceedings of International Conference on water chemistry of Nuclear reactor systems 4. British Nuclear Energy Society (BNES). London 241
18. Strandberg G.W., Shumate I.E.S., Parrot R.J. Microbial cells as biosorbents for heavy metals: accumulation of Uranium by Saccharomyces cerevisae and Pseudomonas aeroginosa. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1:1981;237-245
19. Tusa, E. 1992 (Februarry). IVO's resin-eating bacteria make light work of waste treatment, Nucl. Eng. Int., 39
20. Venkateswaran G, Dey GR, Kerkar AS, Gokhale BK, Gokhale AS, Balaji V, Kumbhar AG, Nema MK, Anantharaman K, Joginder Kumar, Ananthan P, Sunil Kumar, Sathe SM, Sah DN, Sanyal DN, Ravindra Nath, Sahu RK, Ramu A, Kansara HN, Muraisharan K, Save CB, Patil DP, Padmanabhan SA, Shinde RP, Pisharody NN, Upadhyaya TC, Sharma BL, Katiyar SC, Wagh PM, Chemical Decontamination of Clean-up System of Unit-2 of Tarapur Atomic Power Station - Phase 2 Task, BARC Report No. BARC/2003/I/012
21. Wood CJ. 1986. Experience with chemical decontamination in US power plants. In: Proceedings of International Conference on water chemistry of Nuclear reactor systems 4. British Nuclear Energy Society (BNES). London, 249
22. Zhao H., Eide D. The yeast ZRT1 gene encodes the zinc transporter protein of a high-affinity uptake system induced by zinc limitation. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 1:(93):1996;2454-2458