How Mushrooms Can Clean Up Radioactive Contamination - An 8 Step Plan by Paul Stamets Paul Stamets, the master of mycorrhiza, describes how to isolate the radioactive material at Fukushima, specifically Cesium 137, and reduce its impact on the surrounding land and its wildlife and people. permaculture.co.uk/articles/how-mushrooms-can-clean-radioactive-contamination-8-step-plan 1. Evacuate the region around the reactors. 2. Establish a high-level, diversified remediation team including foresters, mycologists, nuclear and radiation experts, government officials, and citizens. 3. Establish a fenced off Nuclear Forest Recovery Zone. 4. Chip the wood debris from the destroyed buildings and trees and spread throughout areas suffering from high levels of radioactive contamination. 5. Mulch the landscape with the chipped wood debris to a minimum depth of 12-24 inches. 6. Plant native deciduous and conifer trees, along with hyper-accumulating mycorrhizal mushrooms, particularly Gomphidius glutinosus, Craterellus tubaeformis, and Laccaria amethystina (all native to pines). G. glutinosus has been reported to absorb – via the mycelium – and concentrate radioactive Cesium 137 more than 10,000-fold over ambient background levels. Many other mycorrhizal mushroom species also hyper-accumulate. 7. Wait until mushrooms form and then harvest them under Radioactive HAZMAT protocols. 8. Continuously remove the mushrooms, which have now concentrated the radioactivity, particularly Cesium 137, to an incinerator. Burning the mushroom will result in radioactive ash. This ash can be further refined and the resulting concentrates vitrified (placed into glass) or stored using other state-of-the-art storage technologies.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 23:55:51 +0000
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