it Is Only With The Ending Of The Cold War That The Issue Of Environmental Hazards At Many Former Nuclear Testing Sites Around The World Has Attracted International Scientific Interest. This Book Discusses The Environmental, Ecological, And Health Problems Associated With Nuclear Testing. Topics Treated Include Dose Assessment, Risk, Speciation And Transport Of Radionuclides, Measurement And Separation Of Radionuclides, And Remedial Options. The Nuclear Test Sites Examined Include The Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site (kazakhstan), The Nevada Test Site (usa), The Pacific Atolls, And The Maralinga Test Site (australia). The Volume Also Discusses The Additional Release Sites Of Chelyabinsk (russia), Chernobyl (ukraine), Palomares (spain), Los Alamos (usa), And Others. A Valuable Compendium Of Radiological Problems For A Wide Spectrum Of Readers, From Non-specialist To Expert. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 A Path To a Nuclear Future....Pages 3-9 Radioecological Issues in the Research Efforts of the RFNC-VNIIEF....Pages 11-15 Techniques Used at the National Nuclear Centre’s Institute of Nuclear Physics for Studying Soil Probes and Soil Fragments at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site....Pages 17-42 Front Matter....Pages 43-43 Health and Environmental Issues at U.S. Nuclear Test Sites....Pages 45-60 Hydrogeological Investigations and Radionuclide Migration in Groundwater at the Nevada Test Site....Pages 61-74 Characterisation of Radionuclide Contamination at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site Territory....Pages 75-87 Radioactive Strontium-and Caesium-Contaminated Sites: Characterisation, Transport, and Remedial Options....Pages 89-97 Evaluation of the Anthropogenic Radionuclide Concentrations in Sediments and Fauna Collected in the Arctic....Pages 99-107 Radiological Environmental Research Conducted at the Site of the Sinking of the “Komsomolets” Nuclear-Powered Submarine....Pages 109-114 Front Matter....Pages 115-115 Determination of Radionuclide Species in Natural Waters, Soils, and Sediments....Pages 117-125 Radiation Survey and Radionuclide Analysis of Radioactive Plumes from the Former Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site....Pages 127-143 Determination of 89 sr and 90 sr from Low-and Intermediate-Level Radioactive Liquid Waste....Pages 145-150 Front Matter....Pages 151-151 Evaluation of Possible Radiation Exposures Near the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site....Pages 153-159 Technical Basis of Dose Reconstruction....Pages 161-172 ESR Investigation of Environmental Objects from the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site Region....Pages 173-179 Monitoring the Marshall Islands for Residual Weapons Testing Fallout: Techniques and Findings ....Pages 181-189 External Exposure Estimates for Individuals Near the Nevada Test Site....Pages 191-202 Comparative Plutonium-239 Dose Assessment for Three Desert Sites....Pages 203-219 Database Management of Radioecological Data for Dose Assessment....Pages 221-222 Database of the Radioecological Situation at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site....Pages 223-230 Front Matter....Pages 231-231 Methods and Equipment for Field Monitoring of Different Types of 137 Cs Contamination, Including Small, Isolated Spots....Pages 233-237 Georadioecological Mapping Problems at Nuclear Explosion Sites....Pages 239-244 Activation Analysis of Large Volume Soil Extract Samples....Pages 245-252 Back Matter....Pages 253-256
