This was near the end of Kryon Book 2. I went looking. Apparently, there are bacteria that will eat anything. They may be our first line of defense when these 40 yr old nuke power plants are 200 yr old and just as “glow in the dark” then as today.
NSF: Radiation Eaters
But in the 1960s, scientists began discovering exotic organisms that play by astonishingly different rules, such as microbes living in near-boiling water or high-acidity environments. Now, a team searching deep in a South African gold mine has found one that redefines the very limits of life: Bacteria that subsist in rock at huge pressure for thousands of years by ’eating‘ by-products of radioactivity, completely isolated from any organic matter or effects of photosynthesis.
Scientists Seek Indestructible Bugs To Eat Nuclear Waste
Eight years ago, scientists using a metal rod here to probe the radioactive depths of a nuclear-waste tank saw something that shocked them: a slimy, transparent substance growing on the end of the rod.
They took the specimen into a concrete-lined vault where technicians peered through a 3-foot-thick window and, using robot arms, smeared a bit of the specimen into a petri dish. Inside the dish they later found a colony of strange orange bacteria swimming around. The bacteria had adapted to 15 times the dose of radiation that it takes to kill a human being. They lived in what one scientific paper calls a “witches’ brew” of toxic chemicals.
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Scientists know of at least a dozen extremophiles. The first was discovered in 1956 in Corvallis, Ore. Scientists were zapping cans of horse meat with high radiation, trying to establish the preservative value of food irradiation. One can developed an ominous bulge. Inside, the scientists isolated pink bacteria they had never seen before.
National Geographic: Fungi Gobble Radiation to Grow, Study Says
The team performed a series of experiments to test whether the fungi could be harvesting radiation to fuel their growth, much like plants do when they capture solar energy through photosynthesis.
In addition to faster fungal growth, the researchers noted changes in the electrical structure of the melanin exposed to radiation.
Lead researcher Ekaterina Dadachova said these observations suggest that the pigment may play a role in the fungi similar to that of chlorophyll in plants, which traps energy from sunlight and converts it to “food energy” needed to sustain life.
“We have associated the faster growth caused by radiation with melanin—a phenomenon suggesting that the pigment is somehow involved in harvesting high-energy ionizing radiation” and promoting growth, study co-author Arturo Casadevall of Yeshiva University said.