This book provides a comprehensive review on how radionuclides occur in the environment; how radionuclides are distributed in soil; how the migration of radionuclides in plants occurs; and their consequences on human health. It explains how the speciation of radionuclide interferes in the uptake and accumulation processes in fruits, and includes case studies as well as reviews of modern and state-of-the-art technology related to radioactive material uptake in plants.

This volume is a useful reference to researchers in the field of radionuclide contamination in foods and will also be helpful for graduate and undergraduate students specializing in radioactive waste disposal and its toxicity effects in food products and their consequences on humans.

Contents:

• Distribution of Radionuclides in Soil and Their Entry into Food through Uptake by Plants (A S Mollah and M J Ferdous)


• Impact of Radioactive Soil Contamination on Plant Growth (T Tjock-Mbaga, Ali Zarma, A S Wakata Beya, P Ele Abiama, J M Ema'a Ema'a, and G H Ben-Bolie)


• Influence of the Clay Fraction Mineralogy of Soils and Agromeliorants on 137Cs Mobility in Soils and Accumulation in Plants (Vyacheslav S Anisimov, Natalya I Sanzharova, Lyudmila N Anisimova, Andrey I Sanzharov, Dmitry V Krylenkin, and Rena A Mikailova)


• Americium and Plutonium Isotopes in Forest Ecosystems of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (Sergiy Dubchak)


• Cesium-137 Accumulation in Crops in the Fourth Decade After Chernobyl: An In-depth Analysis (Aleksander Nikitin, Lasko Tamara, and Tagai Svetlana)


• Radionuclide Transfer Factor from Forest Trees and Other Plant Species to Food (Olga Jefanova)


• Radioactive Contamination of Lands and Possible Techniques for Their Rehabilitation (Anna V Voronina, Vladimir S Semenishchev, and Andrey S Kutergin)


• Exposure Pathways and Potential Biological Effects at Different Biological Organization Levels (Jozef Sabol)


• Behavioral Patterns of Technogenic Tritium in Natural Ecosystems (Nina Nikolaevna Kazachonok)


• Coupling of Competitive Sorption and Membrane Separation for Autonomous Remediation of Radionuclide-Contaminated Areas (E V Polyakov, A A Ioshin, and I V Volkov)


• Microbial Intervention in Augmenting Radionuclide Contamination from Topsoil (Anindita Mitra, Sampriti Kataki, L S Mamatha Bhanu, Vinod K Singh, Soumya Chatterjee, and Dharmendra K Gupta)


• Soil Bacteria in Radionuclide-Contaminated Soil Remediation (L S Mamatha Bhanu, Sampriti Kataki, Anindita Mitra, Apoorva Gaur, Soumya Chatterjee, and Dharmendra K Gupta)


• Health Risks Linked to Radionuclide Toxicity in Foods (Jozef Sabol)

Readership: Researchers from both academics and industry in the field of radionuclide contamination in foods, and graduate and undergraduate students specialization in radioactive waste disposal and its toxicity effects in food products and humans.