Radionuclides in the environment
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Radionuclides in the environment
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Wiley, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Nuclear energy is the one energy source that could meet the world's growing energy needs and provide a smooth transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy in the coming decades and centuries. It is becoming abundantly clear that an increase in nuclear energy capacity will, and probably must, take place. However, nuclear energy and the use of radionuclides for civilian and military purposes lead to extremely long-lived waste that is costly and highly problematic to deal with. Therefore, it is critically important ot understand the environmental implications of radionuclides for ecosystems and human health if nuclear energy is to be used to avoid the impending global energy crisis. The present volume of the EIC Books series addresses this critical need by providing fundamental information on environmentally significant radionuclides.
The content of this book was developed in collaboration with many of the authors of the chapters. Given the enormity of the subject the Editor and the Authors had to be judicious in selecting the chapters that would appropriately encompass and describe the primary topics, particularly those that are of importance to the health of ecosystems and humans. The resulting chapters were chosen to provide this information in a book of useful and appropriate length. Each chapter provides fundamental information on the chemistry of the radionuclides, their occurrence and movement in the enivornment, separation and analyses, and the technologies needed for their remediation and mitigation. The chapters are structured with a common, systematic format in order to facilitate comparions between elements and groups of elements.
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Table of Contents
Contributors. Series Preface.
Volume Preface.
Natural Radioactivity (Dominic Lariviere and Nicolas Guerin).
Anthropogenic Radioactivity (Jerzy W. Mietelski).
Speciation (Brit Salbu).
Tritium (Dan Galeriu and Anca Melintescu).
Potassium (Taehong Jun, Olga G. Tsay and David G. Churchill).
Cesium (Enrique Lima).
Strontium (Francisco Javier Guillen, Antonio Baeza, and Alejandro Salas).
Radium (Hildegarde Vandenhove, Freddy Verrezen and Edward R. Landa).
Phosphorus (Kibong Kim and David G. Churchill).
Sulfur (Olga G. Tsay and David G. Churchill).
Selenium (George Shaw and Daniel Ashworth).
Indium (Rudolf J. Wehmschulte).
Thallium (Rudolf J. Wehmschulte).
Lead (Asnor Azrin Sabuti and Che Abd Rahim Mohamed).
Polonium (Lubna Alam and Che Abd Rahim Mohamed).
Chlorine (Daniel Ashworth and George Shaw).
Iodine (Qinhong Hu and Jean E. Moran).
Xenon (Paul R.J. Saey).
Radon (Bliss L. Tracy).
Cobalt (Enrique Lima).
Technetium (Qinhong Hu).
Rhenium (Keiko Tagami and Shigeo Uchida).
Europium (Xiangke Wang and Jiaxing Li).
Thorium (Zal Uyun Wan Mahmood and Che Abd Rahim Mohamed).
Protactinium (Asamuddin Abu Hasan and Che Abd Rahim Mohamed).
Uranium (Hildegarde Vandenhove, Christian Hurtgen and Timothy E. Payne).
Neptunium (Wolfgang Runde and George S. Goff).
Plutonium (Mary P. Neu, George S. Goff and Wolfgang Runde).
Americium and Curium (Wolfgang Runde).
Oceans and Seas (Michio Aoyama).
Pacific Ocean (Michio Aoyama).
Atlantic Ocean (Peter Kershaw).
Indian Ocean (Pavel P. Povinec).
Arctic Ocean (Agata Zaborska and JoLynn Carroll).
Mediterranean Sea (Roberta Delfanti and Carlo Papucci).
Baltic Sea (Sven P. Nielsen, Maria Luning, Erkki Ilus, Iisa Outola, Tarja Ikaheimonen, Jukka Mattila, Jurgen Herrmann, Gunther Kanisch, Iolanda Osvath).
Black Sea (Victor Egorov, Sergey Gulin and Gennady Polikarpov and Iolanda Osvath).
Global Trends in Cesium Distribution (Yayoi Inomata).
Civilian Nuclear Accidents (Wolfgang Runde, Mary P. Neu, and George S. Goff).
Oak Ridge Reservation (Philip M. Jardine, Scott C. Brooks and David B. Watson).
Index.
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