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- | <h1 style="color: white;"> A project anchored at the heart of current concerns </h1>
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- | The activity of modern nuclear power plants with pressurized water reactors generates
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- | radioactive effluents that contain among other things radioactive cobalt. The tubing of
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- | the cooling circuit is made of a steel alloy rich in stable cobalt (59Co). Undergoing neutron
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- | bombardment coming from the reactor, this stable cobalt changes into its radioactive isotope,
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- | cobalt 60 (60Co).
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- | The capture of this metal is interesting on a sanitary point of view, because it represents
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- | a danger under both its radioactive and stable forms (carcinogenic). It also represents an
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- | advantage on an environmental point of view, in order to avoid contamination of waters, soil
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- | and groundwater. Even with a short half life, cobalt 60 emits high intensity gamma rays, and
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- | decays to nickel, which is stable but polluting.
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- | Controlled immobilization of radioactive cobalt is both an important sanitary and environmental
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- | issue, which we intend to solve with an innovative and economical response. A researcher
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- | from the Lyon INSA-ENS team, Agnès Rodrigues, has recently constructed a E.coli strain able
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- | to eliminate 85% of radioactive cobalt (60Co), initially present as traces in a simulated nuclear
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- | effluent made up of a mix of heavy metals, in only twice one-hour incubation (Appl Microbio
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- | Biotechnol 2009 81:571- 578).
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- | The process that was developed by Agnès Rodrigues’ team ensures the decontamination
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- | of cobalt up to 0,5 ppm (8 nM in 100 000L) with only 4kg of bacteria as against 50kg with
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- | an unmodified bacterium or 8,000kg of an ion-exchange polymer. This kind of process with
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- | modified bacteria will be a good value because the production of bacteria in a bioreactor is
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- | rather economical. However, one issue remained unsolved at the end of this study, that is the
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- | separation of cobalt-fixing bacteria.
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- | The first objective of our project is, with the most recent genetic engineering techniques, to
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- | induce the fixation of optimized bacteria for the cobalt capture and retention in response to the
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- | presence of contaminants in the effluent to be treated.
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- | A second objective aims to develop a system to construct custom-built “biofilm inducible”
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- | strains. Our goal is to construct captors able to launch the formation of biofilm in response to
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- | the presence of various radioactive or not pollutants, and to offer more efficient and cheaper
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- | bioremediation processes.
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