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Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1600 and Transuranium Research Laboratory, Chemistry Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,... 

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EPRI. 1981. Transuranium and other long-lived radionuclides in the terrestrial environs of nuclear power plants. Battelie Pacific Northwest Laboratories. EA-2045. Research Project 1059. Illinois State Library. 

The research programme of the European Institute for Transuranium Elements was, from its very beginning, devoted to both basic research on advanced plutonium containing fuel and to fundamental research on actinide elements. Non-fuel actinide research in Europe started more than 20 years ago with the reprocessing of irradiated actinide samples. Since the first isolation and purification of transplutonium elements, actinide research developed steadily in close contact and cooperation with specialised laboratories in Western Europe and in the United States. 

If you read through the names of the transuranium elements, you ll notice that many of them have been named in honor of their discoverers or the laboratories at which they were created. There are ongoing efforts throughout the world s major scientific research centers to synthesize new transuranium elements and study their properties. 

McMillan, who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Seaborg for these accompUshments. Since that time, Seaborg and other teams involving Berkeley researchers at the University s Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory have prepared nine more heavy elements. He and coworkers hold the world s only patents on chemical elements, for americium and curium. The original location of the first transuranium laboratory on the Berkeley campus (a few yards from the later site of Professor Seaborg s reserved Nobel Laureate parking space) is now a national historic landmark. 

We simply define radiochemistry and nuclear chemistry by the content of this book, which is primarily written for chemists. The content contains fimdamental chapters followed by those devoted to applications. Each chapter ends with a section of exercises (with answers) and literature references. An historic introduction (Ch. 1) leads to chapters on stable isotopes and isotope separation, on unstable isotopes and radioactivity, and on radionuclides in nature (Ch. 2-5). Nuclear radiation - emission, absorbance, chemical effects radiation chemistry), detection and uses - is covered in four chapters (Ch. 6-9). This is followed by several chapters on elementary particles, nuclear structure, nuclear reactions and the production of new atoms (radio-nuclides of known elements as well as the transuranium ones) in the laboratory and in cosmos (Ch. 10-17). Before the four final chapters on nuclear energy and its environmental effects (Ch. 19-22), we have inserted a chapter on radiation biology and radiation protection (Ch. 18). Chapter 18 thus ends the fimdam tal part of radiochemistry it is essential to all students who want to use radionuclides in scientific research. By this arrangement, the book is subdivided into 3 parts fundamental ladiochemistry, nuclear reactions, and applied nuclear energy. We hope that this shall satisfy teachers with differrat educational goals. 

Daly G, Kluk A. 1975. Transuranium nuclides in the environment from management of solid radioactive waste. Environmental Quarterly, HASL-291. New York Health and Safety Laboratory, Energy Research and Development Administration, 1-110-126. 

What are the transuranium elements What property is associated with all transuranium elements Do you know of any practical application of transuranium elements, or are they mostly laboratory curiosities, useful primarily in research ... 

Direct actions performed and funded by the institutional laboratories of the EC (ie, DG JRC/ Joint Research Centred) dedicated to Euratom issues, namely the Institute for Transuranium Elements in Karlsruhe (Germany), the Institute for Energy and Transport spread over Petten (The Netherlands) and Ispra (Italy), the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements in Geel (Belgium). 

Seaborg, Glenn Theodore (1912-99) An American chemist noted as one of the discoverers of plutonium (plutonium-238 and plutonium-239). Gaining his doctorate in 1937 from the University of California, he was appointed professor of chemistry in 1945. He was responsible for nuclear chemical research at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory and headed the Manhattan Project group from 1942 to 1946 that devised the chemical extraction processes used in the production of plutonium. He codiscovered nine other transuranium elements, including the element seaborgium, atomic number 106, which is named after him. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951. 

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