Patent ID: 7935516

Claim:
A process of treating a soil containing low-level radioactive material and petroleum hydrocarbons comprising the steps of: providing a supply of contaminated soil containing a radioactive waste and a petroleum hydrocarbon; introducing into said supply of contaminated soil at least one bacterial isolate which metabolizes a constituent of the petroleum hydrocarbon and is selected from the group consisting of ATCC accession numbers PTA-5570, PTA-5571, PTA-5572, PTA-5573, PTA-5574, PTA-5575, PTA-5576, PTA-5577, PTA-5578, PTA-5579, PTA-5580, PTA-5581, and combinations thereof which metabolize a constituent of the petroleum hydrocarbons; and, treating said supply of contaminated soil until a treated concentration of said petroleum pollutant is less than about 100 ppm total petroleum hydrocarbons.