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- Provides extensive and comprehensive knowledge to researchers and academicians working in the field of radiocesium contaminated sites
- Is a resource for graduate and undergraduate students specializing in radioecology or safe disposal of radiocesium contaminated waste, remediation of legacies and the impact on natural and man-made environment
- Covers recent advancements in radiocesium chemistry, how they enter into the natural environment, it’s impact on natural as well as man-made systems, and it’s ecological risk characterization for soil, plants and wildlife interaction
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book contains original work and reviews on how cesium is released into the environment on translocation from soil to plants and further on to animals and into the human food chain. Separate chapters focus on the effective half-life of cesium in plants and on how different cultivars are responding in accumulation of cesium. Other key chapters focus on cesium impact on single cells to higher plants and also on remediation measures as well as on basic mechanism used for remedial options and analysis of transfer factors. The book rounds off by contributions on cesium uptake and translocation and its toxicity in plants after the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents.
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About the editors
Clemens Walther is professor of radioecology and radiation protection and director of the Institute for Radioecology and Radiation Protection at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. He published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed journals. His field of research is actinide chemistry with a focus on solution species and formation of colloids, ultra-trace detection and speciation of radionuclides in the environment by mass spectrometry and laser spectroscopy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Impact of Cesium on Plants and the Environment
Editors: Dharmendra K. Gupta, Clemens Walther
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41525-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41524-6Published: 24 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82376-8Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41525-3Published: 14 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 319
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Environmental Management, Nuclear Energy, Plant Pathology