Plutonium in the Environment (eBook)

A. Kudo (Herausgeber)

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2001 | 1. Auflage
464 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-053914-0 (ISBN)

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The first volume of the new series, Radioactivity in the Environment, focuses on the environmental occurrence, the speciation, the behaviour, the fate, the applications and the health consequences of that much-feared and much-publicised element, plutonium. Featuring a collection of selected, peer-reviewed, up-to-date papers by leading researchers in the field, this work provides a state-of-the-art description of plutonium in the environment.

This title helps to explain where present frontiers are drawn in our continuing efforts to understand the science of environmental plutonium and will help to place widespread concerns into perspective.

As a whole this new book series on environmental radioactivity addresses, at academic research level, the key aspects of this socially important and complex interdisciplinary subject. Presented objectively and with the ultimate authority gained from the many contributions by the world's leading experts, the negative and positive consequences of having a radioactive world around us will be documented and given perspective.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Contents 6
Foreword 10
Preface 14
Part I: Introduction: Origins and Occurence of Plutonium 18
Chapter 1. Environmental plutonium „ creation of the universe to twenty-first century mankind 18
Chapter 2. Plutonium in the marine environment at Thule, NW-Greenland after a nuclear weapons accident 32
Chapter 3. Isotopic ratio of Pu released from fuel cycle facilities „ importance of radio- chemically pure 236Pu as a tracer 48
Part II: Analytical Methodologies 64
Chapter 4. Plutonium measurement using accelerator mass spectrometry: methodology and applications 64
Chapter 5. ICP-MS analysis of environmental plutonium 80
Chapter 6. Methods for applying plutonium fission track analysis 96
Part III: Speciation and Distribution of Plutonium in the Environment 108
Chapter 7. Distribution and movement of environmental plutonium 108
Chapter 8. The preliminary development of a plutonium in blood plasma equilibrium model 124
Chapter 9. Actinides associated with particles 138
Chapter 10. Speciation and transformations of sorbed Pu on geologic materials: wet chemical and spectroscopic observations 156
Chapter 11. A plutonium geochemical database for performance analysis of high-level radioactive waste repositories 176
Chapter 12. Studies of the speciation, colloidal association and remobilisation of plutonium in the marine environment 192
Chapter 13. Microbial transformations of plutonium and implications for its mobility 218
Chapter 14. Interaction of Pu, Np and Pa with anaerobic microorganisms at geologic repositories 238
Part IV: Case Studies 250
Chapter 15. Global transport of plutonium from Nagasaki to the Arctic: review of the Nagasaki Pu investigation and the future 250
Chapter 16. Long-term trends of plutonium fallout observed in Japan 268
Chapter 17. The behaviour of plutonium in the Pacific Ocean 284
Chapter 18. Plutonium in temperate and Arctic lakes 310
Chapter 19. Plutonium: the legacy of Sellafield 322
Chapter 20. Characteristics of cumulative deposition of fallout Pu in environmental samples collected in South Korea 346
Chapter 21. Plutonium mobility and its fate in soil and sediment environments 364
Chapter 22. The present radiological situation at the nuclear weapons test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan with regard to plutonium contamination 380
Chapter 23. Some aspects of plutonium in and around the former Soviet Union’s Semipalatinsk nuclear test site 392
Chapter 24. Plutonium in the environment of Poland (a review) 418
Chapter 25. A review of plutonium releases from the Savannah River Site, subsequent behavior within terrestrial and aquatic environments and resulting dose to humans 430
Chapter 26. Closing Overview and Discussion, chaired and summarised 454
Index of Authors 458
Subject Index 460

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.2.2001
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Physikalische Chemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• ISBN-10: 0-08-053914-9 / 0080539149
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-053914-0 / 9780080539140