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i am not a biologist but i saw an article (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-38740-2) about a related subject a few months ago; namely, that certain species of algae preferentially uptake uranium-235 (the fun fissile isotope) over uranium-238 (the more prevalent isotope), and the numbers they quoted imply an isotopic separation factor that is,,,significant.

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I did not know this, so thanks for sharing!

Micro-algae and Macro-algae are great for absorbing metals that are in water, its used in wastewater treatment: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319562X1...

When you take an algae supplement it also helps to remove metals from the body as well. Algae is great

That's very unexpected. I wonder how do the microbes do it? According to the article, the higher concentration of U235 happens within the cell.

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