Abstract:

 Soil pollution has increasingly become a serious problem, especially by radionuclide pollution, and has attracted wide attention. Microbial remediation of radionuclide contaminated soil has been studied and proposed as a potential strategy. Because some microorganisms in soil can consolidate heavy metal to form mineralization, heavy metal inos can be removed from soil. A strain of carbonate mineralization bacterium was isolated from the soil and was used for the mineralization of Sr2+. The final removal rate of 1.0 g/ L and 0.5 g/L Sr2 + was as high as 98% and 99% , respectively. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analyses revealed that the mineralized product was strontium carbonate. It is suggested that indigenous bacteria can survive soil radionuclide toxicity and strontium ions could be mineralized as stable carbonate minerals, which indicates important practicability for radionuclide or heavy metal bioremediation. Also, the finding will provide new insights into carbonate biomineralization.

Key words:  carbonatemineralizationbacteria;isolation;nuclideSr2+;mineralization