Plutonium in the Environment: Edited Proceedings of the Second International Symposium, Osaka, Japan, 9-12 November 1999

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Introduction - origins and occurrence of plutonium: environmental plutonium - creation of the universe to 21st century mankind, D.M. Taylor; plutonium in the marine environment at Thule, NW-Greenland after a nuclear weapons accident, H. Dahlgaard et al; isotropic ratio of Pu released from fuel cycle facilities -importance of radio-chemically pure 236Pu as a tracer, H. Yamana et al. Part 2 Analytical methodologies: plutonium measurement using accelerator mass spectrometry - methodology and applications, D. Oughton et al; ICP-MS analysis of environmental plutonium, Y. Muramatsu et al; methods for applying plutonium fission track analysis, L.C. Sun and Y.-H. Xue. Part 3 Speciation and distribution of plutonium in the environment: distribution and movement of environmental plutonium, G.R. Choppin and A. Morgenstern; the preliminary development of a plutonium in blood plasma equilibrium model, J.R. Duffield; actinides associated with particles, B. Salbu; speciation and transformation of sorbed Pu on geologic materials - wet chemical and spectroscopic observations, M.C. Duff; a plutonium geochemical database for performance analysis of high-level radioactive waste repositories, M. Yui et al; studies of the speciation, colloidal association and remobilization of plutonium in the marine environment, P.I. Mitchell et al; microbial transformations of plutonium and implications for its mobility, A.J. Francis; interaction of Pu, Np and Pa with anacrobic microorganisms at geologic repositories, T. Sasaki et al. Part 4 Case studies: global transport of plutonium from Nagasaki to the Arctic - review of the Nagasaki Pu investigation and the future, A. Kudo et al; long-term trends of plutonium fallout observed in Japan, K. Hirose et al; the behaviour of plutonium in the Pacific Ocean, H.D. Livingston et al; plutonium in temperate and Arctic lakes, M. Eriksson et al; plutonium - the legacy of Sellafield, P.J. Kershaw et al; characteristics of cumulative deposition of fallout Pu in environmental samples collected in South Korea, M.H. Lee and C.W. Lee; plutonium mobility and its fate in soil and sediment environments, Y. Mahara and A. Kudo; the present radiological situation at the nuclear weapons test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan with regard to plutonium contamination, G.M. Voigt et al; some aspects of plutonium in and around the former Soviet Union's Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, M. Yamamoto et al; plutonium in the environment of Poland (a review), J.W. Mietelski; a review of plutonium releases from the Savannah River site, subsequent behaviour within terestrial and aquatic environments and resulting dose to humans, T.G. Hinton and J.E. Pinder III; closing overview and discussion, D.M. Taylor.

Review :
D.M. Taylor ...Overall, this well-produced, and generally well-written, hard back book provides an objective state-of-the-art survey of plutonium in the late 20th Century environment. ...Although this book must be regarded as a specialist monograph, it contains much material that will be of interest to the more general reader with some scientific background. Applied Radiation and Isotopes J.M. Robin Hutchinson ...this volume is an important review of the status of measurements of plutonium in the environment. Radiation Physics and Chemistry L.W. Luckett ...this volumes provides a wealth of information addressing the current frontier of efforts to understand environmental plutonium. ...as a library acquisition for multiple users this volumes fills an essential information need. Health Physics M. Charles ...If the first volume is any indication, this series will form a basic essential reference source for all workers in the field. Scope