Evaluating the potential of native ureolytic microbes to remediate a 90Sr contaminated environment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 7652-7658

  Fujita, Yoshiko ^a   Taylor, Joanna L ^b   Wendt, Lynn M ^a   Reed, David W ^a   Smith, Robert W ^b  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CALCITE PRECIPITATION; CONTAMINATED ENVIRONMENT; EQUILIBRIUM MODELS; GEOCHEMICAL CONDITIONS; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; HANFORD; IN-SITU; MICROBIAL CHARACTERIZATION; MICROBIOTAS; MIXED KINETICS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; STRONTIUM REMOVAL; UREA TREATMENT; UREOLYTIC; WASHINGTON;

CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; COPRECIPITATION; GROUNDWATER; REMEDIATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRONTIUM; UREA;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; GROUND WATER; STRONTIUM 90;

BIOASSAY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOREMEDIATION; CALCITE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL KINETICS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; STRONTIUM RADIOISOTOPES; UREA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

HANFORD; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 77957349176     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es101752p     Document Type: Article

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