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Contents
Uranium in the Beginning of the Nuclear Age: Reflections
on the Historical Role of Jáchymov and an Overview of Early
and Present Epidemiological Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
Jozef Sabol
Uranium and Its Distribution in Typical Belarusian Soils . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Galina A. Sokolik, Svetlana V. Ovsiannikova, and Maryna V. Papenia
Environmental and Health Impact Due to Uranium Mining . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Rajiv Ranjan Srivastava, Pankaj Pathak, and Mosarrat Perween
Biogeochemistry of Uranium in Tropical Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Juliana A. Galhardi, Daniel M. Bonotto, Carlos E. Eismann,
and Ygor Jacques A. B. Da Silva
The Behaviour of Uranium in Soils and the Mechanisms
of Its Accumulation by Agricultural Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Aleksandr N. Ratnikov, Dmitry G. Sviridenko, Galina I. Popova,
Natalia I. Sanzharova, and Rena A. Mikailova
Factors Influencing the Soil to Plant Transfer of Uranium . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Javier Guillén and F. M. Gómez-Polo
Uranium and Plants: Elemental Translocation and Phytoremediation
Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Dharmendra K. Gupta, Soumya Chatterjee, Anindita Mitra, Anna
Voronina, and Clemens Walther
Soil-to-Crop Transfer Factor: Consideration on Excess Uranium
from Phosphate Fertilizer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Keiko Tagami and Shigeo Uchida
Influence of Uranium Speciation on Plant Uptake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Nan Hu, Hui Zhang, Dexin Ding, Yujian Tan, and Guangyue Li
Contents
Uranium in the Beginning of the Nuclear Age: Reflections
on the Historical Role of Jáchymov and an Overview of Early
and Present Epidemiological Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
Jozef Sabol
Uranium and Its Distribution in Typical Belarusian Soils . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Galina A. Sokolik, Svetlana V. Ovsiannikova, and Maryna V. Papenia
Environmental and Health Impact Due to Uranium Mining . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Rajiv Ranjan Srivastava, Pankaj Pathak, and Mosarrat Perween
Biogeochemistry of Uranium in Tropical Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Juliana A. Galhardi, Daniel M. Bonotto, Carlos E. Eismann,
and Ygor Jacques A. B. Da Silva
The Behaviour of Uranium in Soils and the Mechanisms
of Its Accumulation by Agricultural Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Aleksandr N. Ratnikov, Dmitry G. Sviridenko, Galina I. Popova,
Natalia I. Sanzharova, and Rena A. Mikailova
Factors Influencing the Soil to Plant Transfer of Uranium . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Javier Guillén and F. M. Gómez-Polo
Uranium and Plants: Elemental Translocation and Phytoremediation
Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Dharmendra K. Gupta, Soumya Chatterjee, Anindita Mitra, Anna
Voronina, and Clemens Walther
Soil-to-Crop Transfer Factor: Consideration on Excess Uranium
from Phosphate Fertilizer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Keiko Tagami and Shigeo Uchida
Influence of Uranium Speciation on Plant Uptake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Nan Hu, Hui Zhang, Dexin Ding, Yujian Tan, and Guangyue Li