Environmental Radioactivity Monitoring and Radiation Protection
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2023) | Viewed by 2743
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Radiation protection of the population and monitoring of radionuclides in the environment is a national responsibility, but the problem has an international scale. The Fukushima or Chernobyl disasters or nuclear weapon use in Japan needed suitable decision making. In those days, effective radiation protection activities had to be applied to ensure public health and reduce fatalities, radiation disease, and other effects. Routinely monitoring radionuclides in the air plays a significant role in triggering emergency protocols in disaster situations, but also gives an opportunity to analyze the range of isotope activities changes, source apportionment of isotope emissions, tracking of isotope transport, or monitoring of dynamic processes in the environment, including aerosol or water masses residence time determination. Using radionuclides as fingerprints of some processes in the environment is a new trend in modern radioecology. This Special Issue, focused on the Environmental Radioactivity Monitoring and Radiation Protection, can give the chance to share high-quality articles and answer many radioecological questions. We hope that articles will advance knowledge on the fate of radionuclides in the environment, to help improve early warning monitoring systems or develop studies on mixing processes in the environment. The aim of the Special Issue is to provide new knowledge about monitoring radionuclides and improve public safety by establishing new radiation protection procedures.
Dr. Magdalena Dlugosz-Lisiecka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- radioactive tracers
- cosmogenic isotopes
- radiation protection
- isotopic methods
- gamma spectrometry
- tracking of radionuclides
