Environmental chemistry hazard assessment

Pollutants — Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Hazardous substances — Risk assessment — Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Environmental chemistry — Handbooks, manuals, etc. 4. Environmental risk assessment — Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title. 

SRC. 1994a. Syracuse Research Center. Henry s Law Constant Program (HENRYWIN, version 2,50 serial HO 142). Chemical Hazard Assessment Divison, Environmental Chemistry Center, Syracuse, NY. 

Disposal of spent nuclear fuel and other radioactive wastes in the subsurface and assessment of the hazards associated with the potential release of these contaminants into the environment require knowledge of radionuclide geochemistry. Plutonium (Pu), for example, exhibits complex environmental chemistry understanding the mechanism of Pu oxidation and subsequent reduction, particularly by Mn-bearing minerals, is of major importance for predicting the fate of Pu in the subsurface. 

The last explicit purpose of the Handbook is to present, in concise form, the most important properties relating to environmental chemistry and hazard assessment for the most important series of chemical compounds. 

Chiou, C. T. (1981) Partition coefficient and water solubility in environmental chemistry. In Hazard Assessment of Chemicals. Current Development, Vol.l, 117-153. Academic Press, Inc., New York. 

Hazard assessment of environmental pollutants requires the input of many physicochemical, biomedical and toxicological properties of large numbers of chemicals in the various decision-making steps. Unfortunately, most of the candidate chemicals have very little or no laboratory data, a prerequisite to their proper evaluation. Modem combinatorial chemistry is quickly producing large libraries of real or virtual chemicals for which almost no property is known except their molecular structure. 

Kenaga, E.E. (1982a) Review the use of environmental toxicology and chemistry data in hazard assessment progress, needs, challenges. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 1,69-79. 

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