Stable microbial community in compacted bentonite after 5 years of exposure to natural granitic groundwater

Stable microbial community in compacted bentonite after 5 years of exposure to natural granitic groundwater

ABSTRACT The Materials Corrosion Test (MaCoTe) at the Underground Research Laboratory in Grimsel, Switzerland, assesses the microbiology and corrosion behavior of engineered barrier components of a deep geological repository (DGR) for long-term disposal of high-level nuclear waste. Diversity and tem...

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Main Authors: Katja Engel, Sian E. Ford, W. Jeffrey Binns, Nikitas Diomidis, Greg F. Slater, Josh D. Neufeld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-10-01
Series:mSphere
Subjects:
MX-80 bentonite clay
nuclear waste disposal
microbial characterization
16S rRNA gene sequencing
cultivation
PLFA
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00048-23

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