In situ bacterial colonization of compacted bentonite under deep geological high-level radioactive waste repository conditions

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 499-510

  Chi Fru, E ^a,b   Athar, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

sp ; Clay buffer; Granitic aquifers; Groundwater; Spent nuclear fuel; Subsurface

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; BACTERIA; BENTONITE; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; GRANITE; SPENT FUELS;

CLAY BUFFER; GRANITIC AQUIFERS; SUBSURFACE MICROORGANISMS;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL;

ACETOGENIN; BENTONITE; GROUND WATER; HYDROGEN SULFITE REDUCTASE; RIBOSOME RNA; SULFATE;

AQUIFER; BENTONITE; COLONIZATION; GROUNDWATER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DSRAB GENE; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE; WATER SAMPLING;

AEROBIOSIS; ALUMINUM SILICATES; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENTONITE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; HYDROGENSULFITE REDUCTASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SWEDEN; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 43949083752     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-008-1436-z     Document Type: Article

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