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Horiike, Takumi*; Dotsuta, Yuma*; Nakano, Yuriko*; Ochiai, Asumi*; Utsunomiya, Satoshi*; Onuki, Toshihiko; Yamashita, Mitsuo*
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 83(20), p.e00855-17_1 - e00855-17_11, 2017/10
Times Cited Count：18 Percentile：58.91(Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology)Radioactive strontium (
Sr) leaked into the ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the nuclear accident. Since the removal of Sr using general adsorbents is not efficient at high salinity, this study investigated removal of soluble Sr from a saline solution by biogenic carbonate minerals. An isolate, Bacillus sp. strain TK2d, from marine sediment removed more than 99 % of Sr in a saline solution. Sr adsorbed at the cell surface and then carbonate minerals containing Sr developed outside the cells.
Kawamoto, Keisuke*; Ochiai, Asumi*; Takeda, Ayaka*; Nakano, Yuriko*; Yokoo, Hiroki*; Onuki, Toshihiko*; Ohara, Yoshiyuki; Fukuyama, Kenjin; Utsunomiya, Satoshi*
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Takeda, Ayaka*; Nakano, Yuriko*; Ochiai, Asumi*; Yokoo, Hiroki*; Ohara, Yoshiyuki; Fukuyama, Kenjin; Nagayasu, Takaaki; Onuki, Toshihiko*; Utsunomiya, Satoshi*
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Kawamoto, Keisuke*; Ochiai, Asumi*; Takeda, Ayaka*; Nakano, Yuriko*; Yokoo, Hiroki*; Oki, Takumi*; Onuki, Toshihiko*; Ohara, Yoshiyuki; Fukuyama, Kenjin; Utsunomiya, Satoshi*
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In the Ningyo-toge uranium mine, Okayama, Japan, various toxic elements such as U, As, and Ra are present in the mine wastewaters, of which the concentration except for Ra in the wastewater decrease below the regulatory limit by transport to the slag dumping pond. The mechanisms of decreasing their concentrations in the wastewaters are not fully understood. In order to understand the fundamental processes of natural attenuation at this site, we have investigated the wastewaters and solids from upstream to the pond at the downstream. Wastewater was contacted with oxygenated water and the amount of dissolved oxygen increased. Simultaneously dissolved ferrous iron was oxidized to form ferrihydrite nanoparticles, which are associated with silica colloids, As and U. The ferrihydrite nanoparticles as suspended colloids were transported to the pond in downstream, where the waste stream is completely oxidized. In the slag dumping pond, Mn dioxide, birnessite, dominantly occurs forming a mixture with ferrihydrite + silica colloid, which has a potential to adsorb Ra
. Consequently, Fe hydroxides nanoparticles and Mn dioxides in Ningyo-toge play a key role on removing U, As and Ra from the wastewater.
