biofuelwatch - Biofuels could clean up Chernobyl 'badlands'

New Scientist:

Biofuels could clean up Chernobyl 'badlands' / 27 June 2009 by Fred Pearce

CONTAMINATED lands, blighted by fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, could be cleaned up in a clever way: by growing biofuels. Belarus, the country affected by much of the fallout, is planning to use the crops to suck up the radioactive strontium and caesium and make the soil fit to grow food again within decades rather than hundreds of years.

More at:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227144.500-biofuels-could-clean-up-chernobyl-badlands.html

More from the company involved at:

http://www.greenfieldpartners.eu/Frankfurt/Greenfield_Info_Pack/Greenfield_Frankfurt.pdf

article says:

possibly 10 * €500million plants

covering area up to 40,000 square kilometre

sugar beet possible feedstock

plus GM research for 'modified crops able to clean the soil more quickly'.

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