"the book presents the latest information concerning environmental analysis of radionuclides and will be an essential reading for practising radioanalysts, as well as for professionals in academia and industry."

• Development of an In-Vitro Procedure to Measure the Availability of Soil-Associated Radionuclides for Uptake After Inadvertent Ingestion by Humans;Separation of Iron-55/59 From Fisson and Activation Products Using Di Isobutylketone-Based Extraction Chromatographic Materials;Synthesis of a Novel Ion Exchanger, Zirconium Vanadate, For Immobilising 134,137Cs Radionuclides;Investigation of a Method for Measuring Radon in Irish Domestic Groundwater Supplies;A comparison of Three Methodologies for the Determination of Gross Alpha Activity in Water Samples;Efficiency and Resolution of Germanium Detectors as a Function of Energy and Incident Geometry;New Method for Determination of Translutonium Isotopes by Using a PM-143 Tracer;Ultra Low-Background Gamma Spectrometry for the Monitoring of Environmental Neutrons;Estimation of Uncertainty in Radiochemical Analysis from Sub-Sampling Solid Matrices;A Rapid Determination of RA-226 and RA-224 Using Extraction Chromatograph;Construction of an Uncertainty Budget for Alpha Spectrometry: A Case Study (The Determination of Uranium Isotopic Activity Levels in Vegetation Samples Using Extraction Chromatography);Spatial and Temporal Variation of Tritium Activities in Coastal Marine Sediments of the Severn Estuary (UK);High Precision PU Isotope Ratio Measurements Using Multi-Collector ICP-MS;Measurement of Gross Alpha and Gross Beta Activity in Sediment: An Analysts' Intercomparison;The Radiological Significance of Foods Collected from the Wild;Natural Radionuclides Measurements in Drinking Water by Liquid Scintillation Counting. Methods and Results;Po Concentrations in UK Seafood;A Study of Colloids in the Near-Field Waters at the Low-Level Waste Repository Site at Drigg;Low Level Liquid Scintillation Counting in a Deep Underground Laboratory: Background Reduction Aspects;Complete Dissolution of Soil Samples by Fusion;LSC: From the Routine Counter to the Real Spectrometer;Simultaneous Determination of Long-Lived Radionuclides in Environmental Samples;Analysis of Am, Pu and Th in Large Volume Water Samples in the Presence of High Concentrations of Iron;In-Situ Radionuclide Retardation in Groundwater Conducting Systems - Overview of the Research Carried out at Nagra's Grimsel Test Site, Central Switzerland;Elution Behaviour of Technetium and Rehenium Through a Tc-Selective Chromatographic Resin Column;The Use of Fucus Vesiculosus to Monitor the Transport of 1291 in The English Channel;Determination of 237Np by Neutron Activation Analysis and Alpha Sepctrometry;Man-Made Radionuclides in Age-Dated Sediment Cores from the Black Sea;Determination of Plutonium in the Air by Isotopic Dilution ICP-MS After TNOA Extraction Chromatographic Separation;Simple Method for C-14 Analysis in Organic Material and its Distribution in Forest and Cultivated Field;F-Labelling of Humic Substances;Chemicals and Radiological Characterisation of Santos Estuary Sediments;Thermochromatographic Studies on the Separation of Plutonium from Soil Samples;Partitioning of Plutonium Isotopes in Lake Bottom Sediments;Radioanalytical Method for the Determination of Sr In Soil Samples by Yttrium Solvent Extraction and Cerenkov Counting;Investigation of Inorganic Contaminants in Packaging Made From Recycled Paper and Board;Equilibrium Factor F and Effective Dose Equivalent with Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors;Biological Monitoring of Radioactivity and Metal Pollution in Edible Eggs of Liometopum apiculatum (Ants) From a Radioactive Waste Site in Central Mexico;Preparation of Environmental Samples for Radioanalytical Assay: An Overview;Comparative Investigations on Hydrophilicity and Mobility of Humic Substances Using Radiolabelling Techniques;Determination of Gross Alpha in Drinking Water and Nuclear Waste Water Using Actinide Resin™and LSC;Chromium Speciation in Acidic Solutions Using Radiochromtographic Methods;Influence of Geochemical Parameters on the Mobility of Metal-Humate Complexes;Ultra Sensitive Measurements of Gamma-Ray Emitting Radionuclides Using HPGE-Detectors in the Underground Laboratory Hades;Sedimentation Rates and Metals in Sediments from the Reservoir Rio Grande - SÒo Paulo/Brazil;Operational Speciation of Ra and U-Isotopes in Sediments Affected by Non-Nuclear Industry Wastes;Radiochronology of Sediment Cores Collected in an Estuary Strongly Affected by Fertilizer Plants Releases;Chemical Fractionation of Iodine-129 and Cesium-137 in Chernobyl Contaminated Soil and Irish Sea Sediment;Subject Index