Use of radiation-resistant micro-organisms have enabled scientists of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to recover heavy metals like uranium and cadmium and radionuclides such as cobalt-60 from radioactive waste.
The treatment of these waste by microbes (both natural as well as genetically engineered ones) offers less expensive, eco-friendly, `in situ' (at the effluent site) alternative to t
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