ArticleMicroorganisms2020
Direct Meta-Analyses Reveal Unexpected Microbial Life in the Highly Radioactive Water of an Operating Nuclear Reactor Core.
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- Current Development of Geological Disposal Facilities: A Comprehensive Review of Corrosion and Microbially Influenced Corrosion of Nuclear Waste Canisters.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Potential applications of microbial genomics in nuclear non-proliferation.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Review
- First Isolation and Characterization of Bacteria from the Core's Cooling Pool of an Operating Nuclear Reactor.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Mix24X, a Lab-Assembled Reference to Evaluate Interpretation Procedures for Tandem Mass Spectrometry Proteotyping of Complex Samples.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Taxonomical composition and functional analysis of biofilms sampled from a nuclear storage pool.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Cyclical Patterns Affect Microbial Dynamics in the Water Basin of a Nuclear Research Reactor.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The pools of nuclear reactor facilities constitute harsh environments for life, bathed with ionizing radiation, filled with demineralized water and containing toxic radioactive elements. The very few studies published to date have explored water pools used to store spent nuclear fuels. Due to access restrictions and strong handling constraints related to the high radioactivity level, nothing is presently known about life in water pools that directly cool nuclear cores. In this work, we investigated the microbial communities in the cooling pool of the French Osiris nuclear reactor using direct meta-omics approaches, namely, DNA metabarcoding and proteotyping based on 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing and on peptide analysis, respectively. We identified 25 genera in the highly radioactive core water supply during operation with radionuclide activity higher than 3 × 10
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