Practical removal of radioactivity from sediment mud in a swimming pool in Fukushima, Japan by immobilized photosynthetic bacteria

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 859-862

  Sasaki, Ken ^a   Morikawa, Hiroyo ^a   Kishibe, Takashi ^a   Mikami, Ayaka ^b   Harada, Toshihiko ^c   Ohta, Masahiro ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA KOKUSAI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ohta Koukan Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c RCO Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fukushima; Immobilized photosynthetic bacteria; Nitric acid treatment; Radioactive cesium; Water containing sediment mud

Indexed keywords

FUKUSHIMA; IMMOBILIZED CELLS; NEGATIVE CHARGE; NITRIC ACID TREATMENT; PHOTOSYNTHETIC BACTERIAS; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIA; CELL IMMOBILIZATION; CELL MEMBRANES; CESIUM; NITRIC ACID; RADIOACTIVITY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SWIMMING POOLS;

CESIUM COMPOUNDS;

ALGINIC ACID; CESIUM; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACID; NITRIC ACID;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BATCH CELL CULTURE; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZED CELL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOACTIVITY; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SWIMMING POOL; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ADSORPTION; ALGINATES; BATCH CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELLS, IMMOBILIZED; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; JAPAN; NITRIC ACID; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RADIOACTIVITY; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SWIMMING POOLS;

PHOTOBACTERIA;

EID: 84860210506     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.110853     Document Type: Article

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