Heavy metal contamination is a serious problem caused by factories, nuclear plants, and sometimes even nature. This project investigated the used of pinto beans and radishes for the uptake of cesium in contaminated soils. If pinto beans and radish are efficient enough they could possibly be used to help clean heavy metal contamination, in such cases as the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant disaster. A total of 110 pinto beans and 110 radish plants were grown in a mixed soil for two weeks of growth cesium was added to the soil, in the form of cesium nitrate, and the pinto beans and radish were exposed for two weeks. When harvested plants were analyze for Cs with AA spectroscopy instrument.

Accumulation of cesium in pinto beans and radishes

247th National Meeting (2014)

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