$2.8 million study to test if microbes can grow in Canada's national facility for nuclear waste

With Canada getting closer to moving all its spent nuclear fuel to a single facility, and encasing each fuel container in bentonite clay, researchers are studying whether that clay could support microbial life – which could eat away at the metal containers.

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