Microbiological Transformations of Radionuclides in the Subsurface

Environmental Microbiology: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 95-114

  Marshall, Matthew J ^a   Beliaev, Alexander S ^a   Fredrickson, James K ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exopolymer role in reductive precipitation of UO2 and uraninite nanoparticle aggregate formation; Microbiological transformations of radionuclides in subsurface; Radionuclide reduction by metal reducing bacteria (DMRB) within Geobacter and Shewanella

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863506712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470495117.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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