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large quantities of strontium out of contaminated soil and water. Their work would supplement ongoing commercial efforts to use plants for toxic cleanup.

Phytotech, a phytoremediation company based in New Jersey, has used floating rafts of sunflowers to clean up radioactive Chernobyl water. Dangling sunflower roots pull both cesium 137 and strontium 90 out of the water. After they've done their work, the sunflowers are disposed of as radioactive waste. The estimated cost for the project is $2 to $6 per thousand gallons of water. Phytotech researchers also used Indian mustard to clean cesium and strontium out of soil contaminated by Chernobyl fallout.

Sources: Peter Goldsbrough, (765) 494-1334; e-mail, goldsbrough@hort.purdue.edu
Mary Alice Webb is on sabbatical. You can reach her via e-mail at webb@btny.purdue.edu
Writer: Rebecca J. Goetz, (765) 494-0461; e-mail, rjg@aes.purdue.edu
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