Cleaning Up

In the last few decades, scientists have discovered a swath of organisms that survive by literally eating radioactive waste. This is astonishing for several reasons. First, it was presumed that all life had to survive as a result of photosynthesis (carnivores eat herbivores, that eat vegetation produced by photosynthesis). Second, the uniqueness of these organisms suggest that life is far more resilient than anyone had previously thought.
Since their discovery, researchers have sought, unsuccessfully, to grow them in the lab. While many scientists believe these microbes could be the key to understanding evolution and life on other planets, Jacob Densy care's little about the past. Densy, CEO for Unicore Technologies and Mining, instead believes that these creatures have far more important application in the future. For starters, Densy believes significant progress can be made in cleaning up the worlds nuclear waste if they can only unlock the secrets of their regenerative processes. Second, Densy sees application to the Mars colonization effort. If these microbes can generate energy by eating by-products of radioactivity, perhaps they can generate energy for more advanced plant life on other planets.

Learn more about the science that Unicore has  developed here