Testing Chernobyl fungi as a radiation shield for astronauts
Monday, July 27, 2020 - 09:01
in Physics & Chemistry
A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Stanford University has tested the viability of using a type of fungus found growing in some of the destroyed nuclear reactors at the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant site to shield astronauts from radiation. They have written a paper describing their work and have uploaded it to the bioRxiv preprint site.