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[deleted] t1_j5ozqcp wrote

Reply to comment by Neptune-neptune in TIL that Ophiocordyceps unilateralis (zombie-ant fungus) has its own fungal hyperparasite sometimes referred to as the "anti zombie-fungus fungus" which limits its effect on ant colonies by Kubly

There are also bacteria that eat radioactive waste. Nature is way ahead of us.

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Nadaesque t1_j5qcidk wrote

There's fungi who like to live near it, but nothing digests and destroys radioactive waste. To do so would either involve alchemy or colliders. A radioactive atom stays an unstable isotope until it absorbs or emits something.

That's what people don't really get about radioactive contamination of soils and such. Burn it in a furnace? Radioactive smoke.

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