Radionuclides in the Environment (eBook)

David A. Atwood (Herausgeber)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
560 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-118-63269-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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. About EIC Books The Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry (EIC) has proved to be one of the defining standards in inorganic chemistry, and most chemistry libraries around the world have access either to the first of second print editon, or to the online version. Many readers, however, prefer to have more concise thematic volumes, targeted to their specific area of interest. This feedback from EIC readers has encouraged the Editors to plan a series of EIC Books, focusing on topics of current interest. They will appear on a regular basis, and will feature leading scholars in their fields. Like the Encyclopedia, EIC Books aims to provide both the starting research student and the confirmed research worker with a critical distillation of the leading concepts in inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry, and provide a structured entry into the fields covered. This volume is also available as part of Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, 5 Volume Set. This set combines all volumes published as EIC Books from 2007 to 2010, representing areas of key developments in the field of inorganic chemistry published in the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry. Find out more.

Autor

David Allan Atwood was born in 1965 in Urbana, Illinois. At an early age David moved to TuscaloosaAlabama where he grew up and ultimately attended college. After graduation from the University of Alabama he moved to Austin Texas to attend graduate school at the University of Texas with Richard Jones as his advisor. He graduated with his PhD (in Inorganic Chemistry) in the Spring of 1992 but stayed in Austin as a postdoctoral associate with Alan Cowley until his wife, Vicki Ossink Atwood, finished her PhD (also in Inorganic Chemistry). From UT he moved as an Assistant Professor to North Dakota State University as part of their new Center for Main Group Chemistry (of which he was co-director). In 1998 David Atwood joined the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky faculty as an Associate Professor. He now has over 160 publications, 10 patents, and serves on numerous editorial boards, including the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, a 15 volume set published in Fall 2005. He is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of Main Group Chemistry. His research interests include detection and removal of heavy metal contaminants such as mercury, cadmium and lead, from the environment, the preparation of nanoparticulate metal oxides, prevention of aluminum alloy oxidation, and the synthesis of new Lewis acid compounds to effect new reactions, such as the breaking of phosphate esters bonds like those found in nerve gas agents and pesticides and the destruction of methyl-t-butyl ether (MTBE) a widespread water contaminant.

Inhalt

Contributors.

Series Preface.

Volume Preface.

Natural Radioactivity (Dominic Larivière and
Nicolas 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, 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 Lüning, Erkki
Ilus, Iisa Outola, Tarja Ikäheimonen, Jukka Mattila,
Jürgen Herrmann, Günther 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.2.2013
• Reihe/Serie: EIC Books
• Reihe/Serie: EIC Books
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Anorganische Chemie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: Anorganische Chemie • Chemie • Chemistry • Inorganic Chemistry
• ISBN-10: 1-118-63269-9 / 1118632699
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-63269-7 / 9781118632697