Atwood Radionuclides in the Environment

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-63269-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 560 Seiten, E-Book

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Nuclear energy is the one energy source that could meet the world'sgrowing energy needs and provide a smooth transition from fossilfuels to renewable energy in the coming decades and centuries. Itis becoming abundantly clear that an increase in nuclear energycapacity will, and probably must, take place.
However, nuclear energy and the use of radionuclides forcivilian and military purposes lead to extremely long-lived wastethat is costly and highly problematic to deal with. Therefore, itis critically important ot understand the environmentalimplications of radionuclides for ecosystems and human health ifnuclear energy is to be used to avoid the impending global energycrisis. The present volume of the EIC Books series addresses thiscritical need by providing fundamental information onenvironmentally significant radionuclides.
The content of this book was developed in collaboration withmany of the authors of the chapters. Given the enormity of thesubject the Editor and the Authors had to be judicious in selectingthe chapters that would appropriately encompass and describe theprimary topics, particularly those that are of importance to thehealth of ecosystems and humans. The resulting chapters were chosento provide this information in a book of useful and appropriatelength. Each chapter provides fundamental information on thechemistry of the radionuclides, their occurrence and movement inthe enivornment, separation and analyses, and the technologiesneeded for their remediation and mitigation. The chapters arestructured with a common, systematic format in order to facilitatecomparions between elements and groups of elements.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Atwood, David A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors.
Series Preface.
Volume Preface.
Natural Radioactivity (Dominic Larivière andNicolas Guérin).
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 Guillén, AntonioBaeza, and Alejandro Salas).
Radium (Hildegarde Vandenhove, Freddy Verrezen andEdward 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 RahimMohamed).
Polonium (Lubna Alam and Che Abd RahimMohamed).
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 RahimMohamed).
Protactinium (Asamuddin Abu Hasan and Che Abd RahimMohamed).
Uranium (Hildegarde Vandenhove, Christian Hurtgen andTimothy E. Payne).
Neptunium (Wolfgang Runde and George S. Goff).
Plutonium (Mary P. Neu, George S. Goff and WolfgangRunde).
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 JoLynnCarroll).
Mediterranean Sea (Roberta Delfanti and CarloPapucci).
Baltic Sea (Sven P. Nielsen, Maria Lüning, ErkkiIlus, Iisa Outola, Tarja Ikäheimonen, Jukka Mattila,Jürgen Herrmann, Günther Kanisch, IolandaOsvath).
Black Sea (Victor Egorov, Sergey Gulin and GennadyPolikarpov and Iolanda Osvath).
Global Trends in Cesium Distribution (YayoiInomata).
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.