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| - | A project anchored at the heart of current concerns<br><HR>
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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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| - | cobalt 60 (<sup>60</sup>Co).
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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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| - | 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 (<sup>60</sup>Co), 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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| - | The process that was developed by Agnès Rodrigue’s 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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| - | 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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| - | 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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| - | To conclude, our objective is to deposit a part able to make any strains inducible to cobalt. In presence of this element, strains will become adherent and will form biofilm thanks to their curli.
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