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Published online 13 October 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031006-16
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Bugs boost Cold War clean-up
Bacteria could scrub uranium from sites contaminated decades ago.
Uranium-contaminated groundwater can be cleaned up by resident microbes, say microbiologists1.
Cold War-era uranium processing has left contaminated sites across the United States and the world.
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