Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Following nuclear weapon tests, radiation accidents, functioning of mining, milling and processing industries related to fissile and fossil materials productions environments across the globe are contaminated by radionuclides representing a potential radiation exposure to humans. The book will comprise a wide spectrum of issues such as site characterization of contaminated sites before and after remediation, safety requirements, remediation planning, effectiveness of individual measures in different environments, social, ethical and economic considerations etc. It will describe modern decision aiding technologies and environmental decision support systems that can be effectively used for remediation planning and optimizing. A review of potentially effective remediation measures will be given applicable to different categories of contaminated environments and contaminants. Associated side effects (environmental and social) will also be considered. Special emphasis will be given to decommissioning of enterprises and waste management. Several case studies, demonstrating successful applications in remediation of contaminated locations of different origins: radiation accidents and incidents, areas of uranium, sand and tin mining, nuclear test sites etc., will be presented and discussed. Human based remediation measures, comprising perception of this activity by the population; to stakeholders and population involvement to making decisions on environmental safety and remediation of contaminated sites will be considered.

International approaches to remediation of territorial radioactive contamination / A.J. Gonzàlez -- Site characterisation and measurement strategies for remediation purposes / S. Fesenko, L. Zeiller, and G. Voigt -- Decision -- aiding tools for remediation strategies / V. Shershakov, S. Fesenko, I. Kryshev, and N. Semioshkina -- Remediation of areas contaminated after radiation accidents / R.M. Alexakhin -- Remediation of sites contaminated by nuclear weapon tests in the Marshall Islands and Australia / P.R. Danesi -- 6. Remediation as part of the decommissioning of nuclear facilities, E. Falck, R. Seitz, M. Pearl, M. Audet, P. Schmidt, and H.M. Fernandes -- Remediation Planning of Uranium Mining and Milling Facilities: The PriDneperovsky Chemical Plant Complex in Ukraine / O. Voitsekhovych, and T. Lavrova -- Principles and technologies for remediation of uranium-contaminated environments / Yong-Guan Zhu, and Bao-Dong Chen -- Effectiveness of remedial techniques for environments contaminated by artificial radionuclides / K.G. Andersson, and P. Roos -- Environmental, social, ethical and economic aspects of remediation / D. Oughton, I. Bay-Larsen, and G. Voigt.

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