The fungal resident found in Chernobyl “can decompose radioactive material such as the hot graphite in the remains of the Chernobyl reactor,” science journal Nature said in 2007. In addition to not dying, they discovered that it actually grows towards the radiation, as if attracted to it. It feeds on radioactive rays to produce energy, like plants, use carbon dioxide to produce glucose and oxygen via photosynthesis.
Such Fungi are being grown and shall be utilized for protecting astronauts in space during a spacewalk or at their work at the space station from heavy radiation from the cosmic body which causes many I'll effects including damage to the skin, hair, causing cancers, lymphomas or acute GI and cardiovascular injuries. This method is called radiosynthesis as explained by NASA scientists where radiation is absorbed by fungi producing oxygen-consuming carbon dioxide. If…
