Nuclear Chemistry, Photochemistry & Radiation

Nuclear power currently contributes some 20% of the electricity needs of the UK and is rising rapidly on the political agenda due to environmental ...

The Department of Energy is the only domestic supplier for many of the over 300 different isotopes it sells that are critical to medical, commercia...

The question of what to do with radioactive waste has been raised frequently for both fission and fusion power plants. In recent years, fusion de...

There is the conjuncture that 2012 is a special year in the history of physics, that cannot go unobserved without celebration: 100 years of cosmic ...

Functional organic and organometallic polymers and materials have gained much attention as versatile materials for energy interconversions and opto...

Little is known about lithium-7 production in China and Russia and whether their supplies can meet future domestic demand. According to industry re...

Ultraviolent (UV) radiation represents a comparatively small part of the total electromagnetic spectrum, yet this portion of the spectrum is respon...

There is the conjuncture that 2012 is a special year in the history of physics that cannot go unobserved without celebration: 100 years of cosmic r...

Edited by an acclaimed expert in the field, this one handy volume comprehensively covers high energy initiated polymerization, including the polyme...

This book explores nuclear power plants which stand on the border between humanity''s greatest hopes and its deepest fears for the future. Atomic e...

The book deals with the environmentally friendly cleaning materials functionalized with TiO2, a widely known semiconductor giving rise to redox rea...

The bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, brought radiation to international attention but the exact nature of what had been unleashed was still ...

The renowned Oxford Chemistry Primer series, which provides focused introductions to a range of important topics in chemistry, has been refreshed a...

A review of contemporary actinide research that focuses on new advances in experiment and theory, and the interplay between these two realms Experi...

Incidents in the past have made scientists aware of the need for accurate methods of radionuclide analyses in order to estimate the risk to the pub...

The Handbook of Nuclear Engineering is an authoritative compilation of information regarding methods and data used in all phases of nuclear enginee...

The growing use of medical diagnostic procedures is correlated with tremendous and undeniable benefits in the care of most patients. However, it is...

Tucked up against the Rocky Mountains, just west of Denver, sits the remnants of one of the most notorious nuclear weapons sites in North America: ...

We are in the second century of Nuclear Age. It started in early 20th century with a brilliant development of human knowledge about the basis of th...

The 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station led to serious radioactive contamination of the environment. Due to transportation...

Providing critical reviews of recent advances in photochemistry, including computational and organic aspects, the latest volume in the series refle...

More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as ma...

More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as ma...

Providing critical reviews of recent advances in photochemistry including organic and computational aspects, the latest volume in the Series reflec...