Patent 7736887 was granted and assigned to Savannah River Nuclear Solutions on June, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An isolated and purified bacterium is provided which was isolated from a high-level radioactive waste site of mixed waste. The isolate has the ability to degrade a wide variety of organic contaminants while demonstrating high tolerance to ionizing radiation. The organism is uniquely suited to bioremediation of a variety or organic contaminants while in the presence of ionizing radiation.