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Sell it to Jim Beam.

• filoeleven 11y ago
  This is more for fixing the surrounding area than the water, but if some fungi really do eat radiation then there should be a way to filter the water as well. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/radiation-helps-fungi-grow/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/radiation-helps-fu... > Based on experiments with three different types of fungi, they believe the melanin-containing breeds absorb the high levels of energy in ionizing radiation and somehow turn it into a biologically useful (and benign) form, akin to a dark and dangerous version of photosynthesis. http://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/using-fungi-remediate-radiation-fukushima http://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/using-fungi-remediate... > G. glutinosus has been reported to absorb – via the mycelium – and concentrate radioactive Cesium 137 more than 10,000-fold over ambient background levels. Many other mycorrhizal mushroom species also hyper-accumulate. The second method still leaves you with radioactive waste (harvested mushrooms are burned, the ash is turned into glass) but it gets the radiation out of the environment.