Where the scenery’s attractive, and the air is radioactive...

[avram]

Apparently tumbleweeds may be useful for soaking up depleted uranium. Great image there for any post-apocalyptic Western-themed science fiction you might be working on.

And there are artistic implications:

As for why some plants absorb uranium, that's still a mystery, says Ulmer-Scholle. It could be that the plants use the metal to create pigments. One way she hopes to test that possibility is to grow native plants used for dyes, she said.

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