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Uranium-Eating Bacteria Leave Just 5% of The Radioactive Metal in Toxic Mine Water, Scientists Discover


One of the world's largest uranium mines, the Wismut GmbH Schlema-Alberoda operation in what was then Soviet East Germany, left behind a toxic legacy.

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