Trivia
HardWhich Plant Is Used For Nuclear Disaster Remediation?

Answer: Sunflowers
Phytoremediation is the process of using plants to restore balance to an environment damaged by natural or man-made events. A subset of the broad category of phytoremediation is rhizofiltration, wherein the root systems of plants are used to filter, via the movement of water in the soil and the uptake of water by the plants, toxic substances and excess nutrients held in the soil.
Among the various plants used for rhizofiltration, sunflowers have proven to be particularly effective at the task. They grow rapidly and they’re very tall; their height and mass necessitate a strong and broad root system. Further, sunflowers have proven to be particularly efficient at drawing heavy metals and radioactive isotopes up into their biomass. By planting thousands of sunflowers at the site of radioactive disasters (such as Chernobyl and Fukushima), radioactive material can be harvested from the ground without massive excavation efforts. The resulting sunflower plants are then treated as radioactive waste and handled like the soil would be (but much more efficiently).
This is also, uncoincidentally, why the sunflower is the international symbol for nuclear disarmament.
Trivia
HardThe Name Of Japanese Crime Syndicates, the Yakuza, is derived from?
Trivia
EasyWhich Hollywood Action Hero Is A Lifelong Dungeons & Dragons Geek?
Trivia
HardThe Only People To Have Won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony, and Pulitzer Prize Both Happen To Be?
Trivia
EasyThe U.S. State With The Highest Number Of French Speakers Is?
Trivia
EasyFingernails Are Primarily Composed Of A Compound Known As?
Trivia
EasyWhere Is The World’s Largest LAN Party Held?
Trivia
HardThe Eiffel Tower Was Saved From Demolition By What?
Trivia
HardWhich Of These Specialty Windshield Features Was Developed For Cars, But Is Now Used On Ships?
Trivia
HardWhich Movie Is Claimed to Have “Cursed” Companies Featured Within It?