Environmental Engineering Reference
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Table 1.1
(continued)
Bacterial species
Descriptions/comments
References
Thermoanaerobacter
sp.
This bacterium was capable of using acetate, glucose, hydrogen, lactate, pyruvate,
succinate, and xylose as electron donors while reducing U(VI).
[130]
This thermophilic bacterium used O
2
,NO
3
−
, Fe(III), and S
0
as terminal electron acceptors
for growth and also reduced U(VI).
Thermus scotoductus
[131]
Thermoterrabacterium
ferrireducens
Organotrophic growth was coupled to the reduction of sparingly soluble U(VI) phosphate.
This was the first report of the microbial reduction of a largely insoluble U(VI)
compound.
[132]