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G Model HAZMAT-13564; No. of Pages 10 ARTICLE IN PRESS Journal of Hazardous Materials xxx (2011) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Hazardous Materials j o u r n a l h o m e p ag e: w w w. elsev /loc a t e/ jhaz m at Bio-precipitation of uranium by two bacterial isolates recovered from extreme environments as estimated by potentiometric titration, TEM and X-ray absorption spectroscopic analyses Mohamed L. Merroun a,b,∗ , Marta Nedelkova a,1, Jesus J. Ojeda c,d , Thomas Reitz a,2 , Margarita López Fernández b , José M. Arias b , María Romero-González c , Sonja Selenska-Pobell a a Institute of Radiochemistry, Helmholtz Centre Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany b Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Granada, Campus Fuentenueva s/n 18071, Granada, Spain c Cell-Mineral Interface Research Programme, Kroto Research Institute, University of Sheffield, Broad Lane, Sheffield S3 7HQ, UK d Experimental Techniques Centre, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This work describes the mechanisms of uranium biomineralization at acidic conditions by Bacillus sphaer- Received 21 January 2011 icus JG-7B and Sphingomonas sp. S15-S1 both recovered from extreme environments. The U–bacterial Received in revised form 27 August 2011 interaction experiments were performed at low pH values (2.0–4.5) where the uranium aqueous spe- Accepted 13 September 2011 ciation is dominated by highly mobile uranyl ions. X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) showed that Available online xxx