Assessment of Radioactivity in Water and Associated Environments
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 252
Special Issue Editors
Interests: radioactivity; radiation detection; scintillation; environmental radioactivity; radium; radon; background radiation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Radionuclides can be found in water bodies due to natural reasons or as a consequence of human activities that technologically enhance the amount of natural radionuclides or generate artificial radionuclides that may be released to the environment. The assessment of radioactivity in water bodies or associated media is therefore essential to assure the protection of the ecosystems and the living organism, but also provides information about the movement of water masses and past successes, which are of interest to understand historical events and predict future scenarios.
This Special Issue intends to cover all aspects related to radionuclides’ assessment in water bodies and the recent advances on the field. This includes advances in the monitoring of radioactivity; new analytical procedures for activity determination; the development of novel devices and techniques for radionuclide detection and sensing; recent studies based on the mobility of radiotracers; climate change and environmental studies based on radioactivity determinations; NORM studies; innovation on remediation of radioactivity in water; and new models developed to predict the fate of radionuclide in the environment. Although this Special Issue is focused on water bodies (i.e., precipitation, groundwater, soil water, surface water, ice/snow water, drip water in caves, leaf water, sea water, coastal waters, etc.), other associated environmental compartments which may be correlated to those water bodies will be also welcome.
Dr. Alex Tarancón
Dr. Héctor Bagán
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water monitoring
- radionuclide analysis
- radioanalytical methods
- environmental studies
- water remediation
- artificial radionuclides
- climate change
- radionuclide indicators
- natural radioactivity levels
- NORM
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