Radiochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical and Molecular Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 261
Special Issue Editor
Interests: NAA; radiochemistry; environment; nuclear reaction; nuclear parameters
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Dear Colleagues,
Radiochemistry is currently facing a training and recruitment crisis. Older radiochemists are retiring from the nuclear industry and from other radiochemistry fields. This is resulting in a serious shortage in radiochemistry expertise.
Even though radiochemistry has been an integral part of general chemistry knowledge for several decades, knowledge of this critical discipline is currently decreasing as radiochemistry is not widely taught in high schools or at universities; further, younger generations seem to avoid the subject when it is included on a syllabus.
Reasons for this avoidance include negative perceptions about nuclear weapons and the nuclear industry, radiochemistry research being perceived as “not a modern field of chemistry”, and radioactivity itself being seen as inherently frightening.
In the nuclear industry, radiochemistry knowledge is critical across the entire nuclear fuel cycle, especially in areas such as spent fuel management and recycling, nuclear waste disposal, and nuclear decommissioning. Radiochemists also make vital contributions to the environmental sciences, industry, and in work-place safety. Fundamental radiochemistry research is also at the vanguard of modern chemistry research.
We would like to invite readers to support us in our endeavor to contribute to the advancement of radiochemistry.
The complete success of the project will to a large extent depend upon the degree of support received from the authors.
Prof. Massimo Oddone
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- INAA
- geochemistry
- archeology
- radiochemistry
- environment
- nuclear reaction
- nuclear parameters
- biomedicine
- industrial problems
