Radioactive Contamination and Its Impact on the Environment

Dear Colleagues,

The ease with which radionuclide moves through the environment and is taken up by plants and animals is determined by its chemical forms and site-specific environmental characteristics. The peculiarities in climate, geomorphology and radionuclide speciation in the fallout were demonstrated to lead to differences in their migration rates in the environment and rates of its natural attenuation.

The aim of the Special Issue is to set up a collection of research articles and reviews that cover the wide research area of speciation of artificial radionuclides in the environment and its transformation; radionuclide sorption–desorption; fixation and remobilization processes in soil–water systems; radionuclide wash-off from contaminated catchments to rivers and lakes; river transport to seas/oceans; radionuclide bioavailability and transfer to plants and biota; long-term dynamics of radionuclides in environmental compartments; empirical, semi-empirical and numerical modeling of artificial radionuclide’s behavior in the environment; and remediation and decontamination technologies for contaminated land. The objectives of the Special Issue and potential content are interdisciplinary (soil science and chemistry, hydrochemistry, ecotoxicology, environmental chemistry, radioecology, hydrology, environmental modeling, etc.) and in line with the scope of Toxics in the field “The occurrence, transport, and fate of chemicals and materials in different systems (e.g., food, air, water, soil)”.

Prof. Dr. Alexei Konoplev
Guest Editor

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