Recent Advances in Actinide Science
Herausgeber: May, Iain; Alvares, Rebeca; Bryan, N D
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Actinide elements and their chemistry have a significant number of applications. Bringing together contributions from the leading experts in the field, Recent Advances in Actinide Science covers six main topics; * Analysis, the environment and biotransformations * Coordination and organometallic chemistry * Heavy elements * Nuclear fuels, materials and waste forms * Separations and solution chemistry * Spectroscopy, magnetism and superconductivity Covering a wide range of research from pure academic studies to applied industrial science and technology, this book distils the knowledge and…mehr
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Actinide elements and their chemistry have a significant number of applications. Bringing together contributions from the leading experts in the field, Recent Advances in Actinide Science covers six main topics; * Analysis, the environment and biotransformations * Coordination and organometallic chemistry * Heavy elements * Nuclear fuels, materials and waste forms * Separations and solution chemistry * Spectroscopy, magnetism and superconductivity Covering a wide range of research from pure academic studies to applied industrial science and technology, this book distils the knowledge and achievements gained in actinide science over the last four years. This high level book is aimed at researchers, both industrial and academic, and provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of actinide science.
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- Verlag: RSC Publishing
- Artikelnr. des Verlages: 11899808
- Seitenzahl: 836
- Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2006
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 238mm x 163mm x 49mm
- Gewicht: 1352g
- ISBN-13: 9780854046782
- ISBN-10: 085404678X
- Artikelnr.: 22724263
- Verlag: RSC Publishing
- Artikelnr. des Verlages: 11899808
- Seitenzahl: 836
- Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2006
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 238mm x 163mm x 49mm
- Gewicht: 1352g
- ISBN-13: 9780854046782
- ISBN-10: 085404678X
- Artikelnr.: 22724263
Chapter One: Analysis, the Environment and Biotransformations;
Biotransformation of Actinides; Microbial Transformations of Actinides in
Transuranic- and Mixed-Wastes: Implications for Radioactive-Waste Disposal;
A Brief Review of the Enzymatic Reduction of Tc, U, Np, and Pu by Bacteria;
Actinides - A Challenge for Nuclear Forensics; Non-Exchangeable Binding of
Radionuclides by Humic Substances: A Natural Chemical Analogue; On the
Multi-Spectroscopic Approach for Radionuclide/Mineral Interaction Modelling
in Aqueous Solutions; Compact Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: A Powerful
Tool to Measure Actinides in the Environment; Interaction Mechanisms of
Uranium with Bacterial Strains Isolated from Extreme Habitats; High
Sensitivity Plutonium Isotopic Analysis in Environmental and Monitoring
Samples; Speciation of the Oxidation States of Np and Pu in Aqueous
Solutions by CE-ICP-MS and CE-RIMS; Soft X-Ray Spectromicroscopy of
Actinide Particulates; Uranium Colloid Analysis by Single Particle
Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometry; Status of The European
Network for Actinide Sciences, ACTINET; Using Surface Imaging and
Analytical Techniques to Study the Calcite Surface in Contact with Aqueous
UO22+ Ions; Production of High-Purity 236Pu From 237Np by a Photonuclear
Reaction; Decontamination of Soils in Liquid ?O2; A Novel Hydrogen Uranyl
Phosphate-Based Bio-Inorganic Ion Exchanger for the Removal of 60Co, 85Sr
And 137Cs from Aqueous Solutions; Effect of Closo-Dodecacarborane Ion
Exchangers on the Potentiometric Response of Ionophore-Based Ion-Selective
Electrodes; Geochemical and Microbial Controls on Decomposition and
Dispersion of Depleted Uranium (DU) in the Environment: An Overview of
Current Research and the Development of Methods for Handling DU
Microparticulates; Fibrous "Filled" Sorbents for the Preconcentration of
Actinides and Technetium; Np(V) Sorption to Goethite in the Presence of
Natural and Hydroquinone-Enriched Humic Acids; Sorption of Np(IV) and Np(V)
by Depleted Uranium Dioxide; The Recommended Values of 239Pu and 240Pu
Concentrations in IAEA Standard Reference Material Estimated by Three
Measuring Methods: Isotope Dilution-Thermal Ionizaton Mass Spectrometry,
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry and Alpha Spectrometry; A
Sequential Separation Procedure for Pu, Am, U and Np Isotopes in Soils and
Liquid Samples; Combination of Alpha Track Analysis, Fission Track Analysis
with SEM-EDX and SIMS to Study Spatial Distribution of Actinides; Aspects
of UO3 Dissolution Kinetics; Determining the Radiation Damage Effect on
Glovebox Glove Materials; Plutonium-Humate Complexation in Natural
Groundwater by XPS; Uranium Sorption and Solubility Under Conditions
Relevant for the Radioactive Waste Repository in Morsleben / Germany; The
Application of Colloidal Photocatalysis in Actinide Photoredox Chemistry;
Study of the Chemical Scheme of ?-TUPD Solid Solution Alteration;
Solubility Studies of Uranium(IV) by Laser-Induced Breakdown Detection
(LIBD); Resonance Ionisation Mass Spectrometry for Element- and
Isotope-Selective Trace Analysis of Actinides in Environmental
Micro-Particles; The Romanian Uranium Industry- Its Past and Future in the
Context of The Strengthening and Integration of the European Research Area;
Uranium and Neptunium Sorption onto Magnetite Under Suboxic Conditions; The
Application of Avalanche Photodiodes for the Measurement of Actinides by
Alpha Liquid Scintillation Counting; The Effect of Uranium on the Corrosion
of Stainless Steel in High Temperature Molten Salts in the Presence of
Moisture; Reactions of the Feldspar Surface: Surface Composition and
Microtopography After Contact with Radionuclides and Heavy Metals; The
Influence of Oxalate on the Partitioning of Trivalent f-Elements to
Hematite; Mechanisms for the Reduction of Actinide Ions by Geobacter
Sulfurreducens; Oxidation and Surface Complexation of Actinyl Species by
Oxides; Chapter Two: Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry;
Structure-Property Relationships in Novel Actinide Compounds with Heavy
Oxoanions; On the Role of f-Obitals in the Bonding in f-Element Complexes:
the "Feudal" Model as Applied to Organoactinide and Actinide Aquo
Complexes; New Catalytic Reactions Promoted by Organoactinides;
Octacoordinate Soft Donor Complexes of Trivalent and Tetravalent Lanthanide
and Actinide Cations; Structure and Stability of Peroxo Complexes of
Uranium and Plutonium in Carbonate Solution; Sequestered Plutonium:
Structural Characterisation and Complex Formation of Pu(IV) Complexes with
Siderophore-Like Ligands; Extraction of Actinides by Functionalised
Calixarenes; 5f Element Complexes with 'Soft' Donor Atom Ligands: Eight
Coordinate Pu(III) Pyrazinyl and Thioether Complexes; Plutonium(V)
Chemistry in Neutral Aqueous Complexing Media: New Crystal Compounds
Synthesis and Study of their Structure and Properties; Management of
Transuranic Actinide Containing Materials in Nuclear Clean up in the UK;
Extending the Chemistry of the Uranyl Ion: {UO2}2+ Acting as a Lewis Acid
and a Lewis Base; Covalency in Uranium Complexes and New f-Element
Chemistry that Exploits Soft Organometallic Carbene Ligands; Variability in
the Crystal Structures of Uranium(VI), Neptunium(VI) and Plutonium(VI)
Phthalates; Novel Neptunyl(V) and Plutonyl(V) Bi-Oxalate Compounds:
Synthesis, Properties and Structure; Synthesis and Crystal Structure of a
New Np(V) Oxalate, Na4(NpO2)2(C2O4)3.6H2O; Plutonyl(V) Malonate Compounds:
Synthesis and Properties; Crystal Compounds of Plutonyl(V) Monooxalate
Complex; Solid Compounds of Np(V) with
2,4,6-Tri-(2-Pyridyl)-1,3,5-Triazine: Crystal Structure, Spectral and
Thermal Properties; Complex Formation of Np(V) with Picolinic, Nicotinic
and Isonicotinic Acids; The Stability of a Uranyl(V) Benzoyl Acetonate
Complex in Dimethyl Sulfoxide; Preparation of Uranium(III) Perchlorate in
N,N-Dimethylformamide and Other Aprotic Media; Bent Metal Carbenes -
Electrostatic Bonds vs Covalency in Organometallic Actinide Chemistry;
Uranyl Complexation by a Hinged Polypyrrolic Macrocycle; Hydrogen Bonding
with the Uranyl Oxo Atom and Enforced ??Stacking in the Equatorial Plane;
Structure of Trivalent Americium and Lanthanide Complexes with Phosphoryl
Acetic Acid Amides; Surprising Activity of Organoactinide Complexes in the
Polymerization of Cyclic Mono- and Diesters; The Affinity of N Donor
Ligands in AnO22+ Complexes and Synthetic Routes to New Neptunyl Chemistry;
Synthesis and Crystal Structure Determination of Some Mixed Oxalates of
Actinide(s) and/or Lanthanide and Monovalent Cations (NH4+ or N2H5+);
Complexation of a B-Type Unsaturated Polyoxoanion, [BiW9O33]9-, to Actinyl,
{UO2}2+, {NpO2}+ and {PuO2}2+, Cations; Uranium Coordination to
Environmentally Relevant Polyhydroxycarboxylate Ligands; Co-Crystallisation
Processes in a Study of Physiochemical Properties of Actinides and
Lanthanides in Lower Oxidation States; Monocarboxylate Complexes of Uranyl:
a Relativistic Density Functional Study; Coordination Chemistry of
Americium: Synthesis, Structure of Am(III) Iodates; The Performance of
Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory in the Simulation of the
Electronic Spectra of Molecular Uranium Complexes; The Effect of Solvent on
the Modelling of the Geometry and Vibrations of UO2(H2O)52+; Chapter Three:
Heavy Elements; Chemistry of Transactinides; Unusual Volatility of Oxides
Formed by Some Actinides; SISAK Liquid-Liquid Extraction Studies of
Rutherfordium and Future Plans to Study Heavier Transactinides; Development
of a System for Chemical Studies of Rutherfordium by Liquid-Liquid
Extraction From Sulphuric Acid Solutions with SISAK; Influence of KCl on
the Extraction of Rutherfordium Homologues Hafnium and Zirconium from
Sulphuric Acid with Tri-Octylamine in Toluene; Thermochromatographic
Adsorption Studies of Curium and Berkelium; Self-Diffusion Coefficients and
Structure of the Trivalent f-Element Ions, Eu3+, Am3+ and Bk3+ in Aqueous
Solution; Ceramic Plutonium Target Development for the MASHA Separator for
the Synthesis of Element 114; Chapter Four: Nuclear Fuels, Materials and
Waste Forms; Understanding and Predicting Self-Irradiation Effects in
Plutonium Alloys: A Coupled Experimental and Theoretical Approach;
Identifying and Quantifying Actinide Radiation Damage in ZrSiO4 Minerals
and ceramics with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; Lessons Drawn From Studies of
the Transmutation of Fuels Carried Out in the Framework of the French Law
of December 1991 on the Management of Long Lived Waste; Properties of Minor
Actinide Compounds Relevant to Nuclear Fuel Technology; Transformation
Characteristics of Isothermal Martensite in Pu-Ga Alloys; Reactivity of
Mixed Uranium and Plutonium Nitride with Silicon Carbide as Materials for
Gas Cooled Fast Reactors; Confinement of Plutonium and Thorium in
Monazite/Brabantite, in View of Actinide Conditioning; Physical and
Electronic Properties Changed by Aging Plutonium; Corrosion Resistance of
Uranium Metal Surface with CO and SCCO2 Treatment; Pyrochemical Processing
of Plutonium at AWE; Uranium Ion Valences in Perovskite, Zirconolite and
Pyrochlore from Near Infrared Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy; Thermal and
Mechanical Properties of Simulated High Burnup Uranium Oxide Fuels;
Thermodynamic Modelling and Analyses of Molten Salt Reactor Fuel; Structure
of the Americium Pyrochlore Am2Zr2O7 and its Evolution Under Alpha
Self-Irradiation; Local Structure of Th1-XMXO2 Solid Solutions with M = U,
Pu; First-Principles Phase Diagram of the Ce-Th System; Crystal Stability
and Equation of State for Am: Theory; XPS Study of High Temperature
Oxidation of a Plutonium Alloy Under Vacuum; Phase Relation of Mixed Oxide
Fuel Containing Np and Am; Study on Corrosion Resistance Improvement of U
and U-Nb Alloys by Ion Implantation with Niobium; Simulation by External
Irradiation of Self-Irradiation Effects on Thorium Phosphate Diphosphate
(?-TPD) - Consequences for Its Dissolution; From Thorium
Phosphate-Hydrogenphosphate Hydrate to Thorium Phosphate-Diphosphate : A
New Way of Preparation of ? TPD and Associated Solid Solutions with
Actinides; Invariant Equilibria in Binary Plutonium Phase Diagrams,
Relationships; Photoemission and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Study of
Uranium Passivation by C+ Implantation; Optical Metallography of Plutonium;
New Family of Intermetallic Hydrides: U2T2InHx and U2T2SnHx;
Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis of Actinide-Containing
Pyrochlore-Type Matrices; Relation Between Solubility and Local Environment
of Actinides and Surrogates in Borosilicate Glasses; Electrochemical
Studies of Uranium Metal Corrosion Mechanism and Kinetics in Water; The
Effect of Oxygen Potential on the Sintering Behaviour of MOX Fuel
Containing Americium; Variation of Lattice Parameter and Thermal Expansion
Coefficient of (U,Er)O2 as a Function of ErO1.5 Content; An Experimental
Investigation of Effects of Americium Addition to (U, Pu)O2-X on Phase
Relation; Molecular Dynamics Studies of Uranium-Plutonium Mixed Oxide
Fuels; Thermodynamic Modelling of the Uranium-Zirconium-Iron-Oxygen System;
Nanoindentation Studies of Uranium Intermetallic Compounds;
Self-Irradiation of Ceramics and Single Crystals Doped with Plutonium-238;
Actinoid Phosphates of Kosnarite Structure; Monazite and Kosnarite-Based
Ceramics Containing Uranium and Plutonium; Application of ?eramicrete
Matrices for Low-Temperature Solidification of Liquid Actinides-Containing
Wastes; Ab Initio Study of Uranium and Plutonium Carbides and Nitride;
Effect of High Static Pressure on Crystaline and Electronic Structures of
Transition, Lanthanide and Actinide Metals; Positron Annihilation
Spectroscopy: A Powerful Tool to Investigate the Early Stages of
Self-Irradiation Effects in ?-Pu Alloys; High Pressure X-Ray Diffraction
Study of a Pu0.92Am0.08 Binary Alloy; Calculation of the Critical
Concentration of Helium Release From Uranium Tritide; Recycle of Calcium in
Incineration Process of Low Level Radioactive Wastes; Vaporization
Behaviour of Pu-Cd Intermetallic Compounds; Development of the Scientific
Concept of the Phosphate Methods for Actinide-Containing Waste Handling
(Pyrochemical Fuel Reprocessing); Synthesis and Investigations of the
Phosphates of Th, U, Np, Pu, Am and Lanthanides with Monazite, Zircon,
Kosnarite and Langbenite Mineral-Like Structures; Basic Concept of
Hydro-Pyro Hybrid Type Sulfide Process for Spent Fuel; Low Temperature
Selective Reduction of U3O8 in the Presence of Sulfurizing Agents; Chapter
Five: Separation and Solution Chemistry; Actinide Solution Chemistry And
Chemical Separations: Structure-Function Relationships In The Grand Scheme
Of Actinide Separations Science; X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Actinides
Involved in Toxicological Processes; Solubility and Redox Reactions of
Plutonium(IV) Hydrous Oxide in the Presence of Oxygen; Uranium Speciation
in Molten Salts from X-Ray Absorption and Electronic Absorption
Spectroscopy Measurements; The Separation of Plutonium from Uranium by
Solvent Extraction: Recent Developments for Advanced Fuel Cycles; Ternary
Complex Formation and Coordination Modes of Am, Cm and Rare Earths with
EDTA+NTA: Stability Constants, TRLFS and 13C NMR Studies; Influence of
Temperature and Ionic Strength on the Hydration of Curium(III) in Aqueous
Solution Studied with TRLFS; Insights into Third Phase Formation Using
Neptunium; Investigation of the Behavior of Am (IV), (V) And (VI) in
Alkaline Media; A Comparative Study of the Complexation Of Uranium(VI) with
Oxydiacetic Acid and its Amide Derivatives; Actinide Electrochemistry in
Low Temperature Ionic Liquids; New Data on Extraction of Nitric Acid with
30% TBP from Solutions Containing Uranyl Nitrate; New Data on Extraction of
Tetravalent Uranium With 30% TBP from Solutions Containing Uranyl Nitrate;
Behaviour Of Some Anhydrous U(IV) Complexes in Hydrophobic Room Temperature
Ionic Liquids; The Hydrolysis of Protactinium(V): Equilibrium Constants and
Determination of the Standard Thermodynamic Data; The Study of
Polymerization of Pu(OH)4 and its Solubility in 0.01M NaCl Solutions at
Various pH Values; Dissolution Of Actinide Oxides In Some Organic Reagents
Saturated With Nitric Acid; Separation of Uranium and Plutonium by the
Method of Countercurrent Chromatography; Alkaline Sequestrants in Hanford
Tank Waste Processing; Anion Control in Hanford Leachates by Solid-Liquid
Separation; Uranium Removal From Process Effluents Containing Chromate And
Aluminum Nitrate; Diffusion Coefficients of Actinide and Lanthinde Elements
in Liquid Metal for Reductive Extraction; Electrochemical and Spectroscopic
Characteristics of Uranium Ions in a Hydrate Melt; Spectroscopic Study for
the Oxychloride Precipitation of Neodymium and Uranium in Chloride Melts;
Extraction of Transuranium Elements and T?(VII) from Acid Solutions by
Neutral Phosphorous Compounds; Transuranium, Rare Earth Elements and
Technetium (VII) Extraction by Calix[4]Arenes From Acidic and Alkaline
Media; Adsorption Properties of Amidoxime Resins for Uranium(VI) and Some
Fission Products Soluble in Aqueous Carbonate Solutions; Solubility of
UO2(?-Diketonato)2DMSO Complexes (?-Diketonate = Acetylacetonate,
Trifluoroacetylacetonate, Hexafluoro-Acetylacetonate; DMSO = Dimethyl
Sulfoxide) In Supercritical CO2; Kinetic Study on Exchange Reaction of
Hexafluoroacetyl-Acetonate in Bis (Hexafluoroacetylacetonato) (Dimethyl
Sulfoxide) Dioxouranium(VI) in Supercritical CO2 by 19F NMR; Heat
Oscillating Extraction of Rare Earth Elements; Mathematical Model of
Extraction Separation of f-Elements in Non-Stationary Conditions; Final
Tests using the BNFL Electrorefiner at Harwell; Behaviour Of FPs And TRU in
a Fluoride Volatility Process; Specific Features of Kinetics and Mechanism
of Np(IV) Oxidation with Nitric Acid in Aqueous and TBP Solutions;
Lanthanide Salt Solutions: Representation Of Osmotic Coefficients Within
the Binding Mean Spherical Approximation; The Reduction of Np(VI) by
Acetohydroxamic Acid in Nitric Acid Solution; Photoreduction Of UO2F2
Enriched with 18O in Isopropanol Solution; Electrorefining of Plutonium in
Calcium Chloride; Separation of Minor Actinides and Lanthanides from Nitric
Acid Solution by R-BTP Extraction Resin; UC Electrochemical Behaviour in
Aqueous Solution; Redox Behaviour of Plutonium(IV) in Acidic Solutions; The
Effect of Fission Product Elements on the Chlorination of Uranium Metal in
Molten Salts; Spectroelectrochemical Studies of Uranium Behavior in
(Li-K)Cleut Based Melts At 450 ?C; Evaluation of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Systems
for Actinide Recycle in Feasibility Study on Commercialized Fast Reactor
Cycle Systems; Extraction of Transplutonium and Rare-Earth Elements with
the use of Zirconium Salt of Dibutyl Phosphoric Acid; The Effect of
Dibutylphosphoric Acid on Actinide (IV) Extraction by 30% TBP from
Solutions Containing Uranyl Nitrate; Sorption Properties of New Solid
Extractants Based on Malonamide Compounds; Direct Extraction of Uranium and
Plutonium with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide from MOX Fuel; Modelling the
Hydrolysis of Actinide Complexed Hydroxamic Acid Ligands; A New Approach
for Estimating Stability Constants Between Actinides and Organic Ligands by
Semi-Empirical Gibbs Energy Fragmental Method; Measurement of Some
Actinides Redox Potentials in TBP Medium With Ultramicroelectrode;
Development of High Throughput Electrorefining of Uranium in the Metallic
Fuel Cycle; Experimental Data Points to Existence of Plutonium (VIII) in
Alkaline Solutions; Control of Neptunium Routing During the Reprocessing of
Spent Nuclear Fuel Using PUREX; Crystallization Behavior of Uranium and
Plutonium in Nitric Acid Solution; A Hot Test on Minor Actinides Separation
from High-Level-Waste by CMPO/SiO2-P Extraction Resin; Recovery Of Uranium
and Plutonium Metals Through Cathode Processing of Electrodeposits from
Reduced Oxide Fuel Anodes; Kinetics of Electrochemical Generation of
Silver(II); Ionic Liquids for Actinides and Lanthanides Chemistry; Solvent
Extraction of Actinides by Tetraalkylpyridine-N-Oxide-Bis Phosphine Oxide
Complexants; Kinetics and Mechanism of Actinide Complexation by Polydentate
Ligands; The Significance of Minor Actinide Based Fuel Cycles in Advanced
Fuel Cycles; Separation of Uranium from Radioactive Waste using
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide with Nitric Acid - Tri-n-Butylphosphate
Complex; Chapter Six: Spectroscopy and Magnetism; Spectroscopic Actinide
Speciation for Nuclear Waste Disposal; Superconductivity in Actinide
Materials; Neutron Scattering Studies of NpTGa5 (T = Fe, Co, Ni and Rh);
Tuning the Superconducting Behaviour of the PuTGa5 Compounds; The
Electronic Structure of the Pu-Based Superconductor PuCoGa5: LSDA and
LSDA+U Investigations; Ground State and Solution Behaviour of Actinide Ions
Investigated by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Methods; Polarization Effects in
EXAFS Spectra at the Uranium L1 and L3 Edge - A Comparison Between Theory
and Experiment; A Study of the Competition Between Delocalization and
Spin-Orbit Splitting in the Actinide 5f States; A Crossover Effect of the
5f Electrons of Uranium Compounds: From Itinerant to Localized, With
Increasing Temperature; Localization of 5f Electrons and Phase Transitions
in Americium; Orbital Ordering in Actinide Oxides: New Perspectives on Old
Problems; Electronic Structure of ?-Pu: Theories and PES Experiments;
Magnetic Properties of Radiation Damage in Pu and Pu Alloys; A
Photoelectron Spectroscopy Investigation of the Early Stages of Neptunium
Oxidation; Electronic Structure of Molecular Actinide Compounds Through
Spectroscopic Experiments Combined with Theoretical Modelling; Influence of
Self-Irradiation Damage on the Superconducting Behaviour of Plutonium-Based
Compounds; MARS Beamline, A New Facility for Studying Radioactive Matter
from a Synchrotron Source; Solid State Synthesis and X-Ray Diffraction
Characterization of Pu3+(1-2x)Pu4+xCa2+xPO4; Chemiluminescence in
Solid-Phase Reactions of Uranium (IV) and Terbium (III) Compounds;
Chemiluminescent Reactions of Uranium and the Role of UO2+; Magnetic
Anisotropy of U2Co17-xSix Single Crystals; High-Field Magnetization of a
UIrGe Single Crystal; Comparative Photoemission Study of Actinide Metals,
Nitrides and Hydrides; Cathodoluminescence of Actinide Ions in Crystalline
Host Phases Electronic Structure of the Americium Monopnictides: Ab Initio
Calculations and Photoemission Experiments; Using Nano-Focussed
Bremstrahlung Isochromat Spectroscopy (nBIS) to Determine the Unoccupied
Electronic Structure of Pu: A Proposed Study Fluorescence Spectroscopy of
Protactinium(IV); Pu, Np and U Valence States and the Determination of
their Molecular Form by Chemiluminescence and Pulsed Laser Spectroscopy;
Air-Oxidation Behaviour of UO2 and Gd-Doped UO2 by XAS; Speciation Of
Radionuclides With Bioligands Using Time-Resolved Laser-Induced
Fluorescence (TRLIF) and Electrospray Mass Spectrometry (ES-MS); Magnetic
Diagrams of PuGa3 Under Pressure; Magnetic Ordering of U and Co Moments in
(Th,U)Co2X2 (X = Si, Ge) Solid Solutions; Spectroscopic Investigations of
Uranium Species in Alkali Chloride Molten Salts; Magnetic and Electrical
Properties of UCu3M2Al7 Alloys; X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of
Neptunium-Containing Ceramics on the Basis of Ferrite and Titanate (6P23);
Subject Index
Biotransformation of Actinides; Microbial Transformations of Actinides in
Transuranic- and Mixed-Wastes: Implications for Radioactive-Waste Disposal;
A Brief Review of the Enzymatic Reduction of Tc, U, Np, and Pu by Bacteria;
Actinides - A Challenge for Nuclear Forensics; Non-Exchangeable Binding of
Radionuclides by Humic Substances: A Natural Chemical Analogue; On the
Multi-Spectroscopic Approach for Radionuclide/Mineral Interaction Modelling
in Aqueous Solutions; Compact Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: A Powerful
Tool to Measure Actinides in the Environment; Interaction Mechanisms of
Uranium with Bacterial Strains Isolated from Extreme Habitats; High
Sensitivity Plutonium Isotopic Analysis in Environmental and Monitoring
Samples; Speciation of the Oxidation States of Np and Pu in Aqueous
Solutions by CE-ICP-MS and CE-RIMS; Soft X-Ray Spectromicroscopy of
Actinide Particulates; Uranium Colloid Analysis by Single Particle
Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometry; Status of The European
Network for Actinide Sciences, ACTINET; Using Surface Imaging and
Analytical Techniques to Study the Calcite Surface in Contact with Aqueous
UO22+ Ions; Production of High-Purity 236Pu From 237Np by a Photonuclear
Reaction; Decontamination of Soils in Liquid ?O2; A Novel Hydrogen Uranyl
Phosphate-Based Bio-Inorganic Ion Exchanger for the Removal of 60Co, 85Sr
And 137Cs from Aqueous Solutions; Effect of Closo-Dodecacarborane Ion
Exchangers on the Potentiometric Response of Ionophore-Based Ion-Selective
Electrodes; Geochemical and Microbial Controls on Decomposition and
Dispersion of Depleted Uranium (DU) in the Environment: An Overview of
Current Research and the Development of Methods for Handling DU
Microparticulates; Fibrous "Filled" Sorbents for the Preconcentration of
Actinides and Technetium; Np(V) Sorption to Goethite in the Presence of
Natural and Hydroquinone-Enriched Humic Acids; Sorption of Np(IV) and Np(V)
by Depleted Uranium Dioxide; The Recommended Values of 239Pu and 240Pu
Concentrations in IAEA Standard Reference Material Estimated by Three
Measuring Methods: Isotope Dilution-Thermal Ionizaton Mass Spectrometry,
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry and Alpha Spectrometry; A
Sequential Separation Procedure for Pu, Am, U and Np Isotopes in Soils and
Liquid Samples; Combination of Alpha Track Analysis, Fission Track Analysis
with SEM-EDX and SIMS to Study Spatial Distribution of Actinides; Aspects
of UO3 Dissolution Kinetics; Determining the Radiation Damage Effect on
Glovebox Glove Materials; Plutonium-Humate Complexation in Natural
Groundwater by XPS; Uranium Sorption and Solubility Under Conditions
Relevant for the Radioactive Waste Repository in Morsleben / Germany; The
Application of Colloidal Photocatalysis in Actinide Photoredox Chemistry;
Study of the Chemical Scheme of ?-TUPD Solid Solution Alteration;
Solubility Studies of Uranium(IV) by Laser-Induced Breakdown Detection
(LIBD); Resonance Ionisation Mass Spectrometry for Element- and
Isotope-Selective Trace Analysis of Actinides in Environmental
Micro-Particles; The Romanian Uranium Industry- Its Past and Future in the
Context of The Strengthening and Integration of the European Research Area;
Uranium and Neptunium Sorption onto Magnetite Under Suboxic Conditions; The
Application of Avalanche Photodiodes for the Measurement of Actinides by
Alpha Liquid Scintillation Counting; The Effect of Uranium on the Corrosion
of Stainless Steel in High Temperature Molten Salts in the Presence of
Moisture; Reactions of the Feldspar Surface: Surface Composition and
Microtopography After Contact with Radionuclides and Heavy Metals; The
Influence of Oxalate on the Partitioning of Trivalent f-Elements to
Hematite; Mechanisms for the Reduction of Actinide Ions by Geobacter
Sulfurreducens; Oxidation and Surface Complexation of Actinyl Species by
Oxides; Chapter Two: Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry;
Structure-Property Relationships in Novel Actinide Compounds with Heavy
Oxoanions; On the Role of f-Obitals in the Bonding in f-Element Complexes:
the "Feudal" Model as Applied to Organoactinide and Actinide Aquo
Complexes; New Catalytic Reactions Promoted by Organoactinides;
Octacoordinate Soft Donor Complexes of Trivalent and Tetravalent Lanthanide
and Actinide Cations; Structure and Stability of Peroxo Complexes of
Uranium and Plutonium in Carbonate Solution; Sequestered Plutonium:
Structural Characterisation and Complex Formation of Pu(IV) Complexes with
Siderophore-Like Ligands; Extraction of Actinides by Functionalised
Calixarenes; 5f Element Complexes with 'Soft' Donor Atom Ligands: Eight
Coordinate Pu(III) Pyrazinyl and Thioether Complexes; Plutonium(V)
Chemistry in Neutral Aqueous Complexing Media: New Crystal Compounds
Synthesis and Study of their Structure and Properties; Management of
Transuranic Actinide Containing Materials in Nuclear Clean up in the UK;
Extending the Chemistry of the Uranyl Ion: {UO2}2+ Acting as a Lewis Acid
and a Lewis Base; Covalency in Uranium Complexes and New f-Element
Chemistry that Exploits Soft Organometallic Carbene Ligands; Variability in
the Crystal Structures of Uranium(VI), Neptunium(VI) and Plutonium(VI)
Phthalates; Novel Neptunyl(V) and Plutonyl(V) Bi-Oxalate Compounds:
Synthesis, Properties and Structure; Synthesis and Crystal Structure of a
New Np(V) Oxalate, Na4(NpO2)2(C2O4)3.6H2O; Plutonyl(V) Malonate Compounds:
Synthesis and Properties; Crystal Compounds of Plutonyl(V) Monooxalate
Complex; Solid Compounds of Np(V) with
2,4,6-Tri-(2-Pyridyl)-1,3,5-Triazine: Crystal Structure, Spectral and
Thermal Properties; Complex Formation of Np(V) with Picolinic, Nicotinic
and Isonicotinic Acids; The Stability of a Uranyl(V) Benzoyl Acetonate
Complex in Dimethyl Sulfoxide; Preparation of Uranium(III) Perchlorate in
N,N-Dimethylformamide and Other Aprotic Media; Bent Metal Carbenes -
Electrostatic Bonds vs Covalency in Organometallic Actinide Chemistry;
Uranyl Complexation by a Hinged Polypyrrolic Macrocycle; Hydrogen Bonding
with the Uranyl Oxo Atom and Enforced ??Stacking in the Equatorial Plane;
Structure of Trivalent Americium and Lanthanide Complexes with Phosphoryl
Acetic Acid Amides; Surprising Activity of Organoactinide Complexes in the
Polymerization of Cyclic Mono- and Diesters; The Affinity of N Donor
Ligands in AnO22+ Complexes and Synthetic Routes to New Neptunyl Chemistry;
Synthesis and Crystal Structure Determination of Some Mixed Oxalates of
Actinide(s) and/or Lanthanide and Monovalent Cations (NH4+ or N2H5+);
Complexation of a B-Type Unsaturated Polyoxoanion, [BiW9O33]9-, to Actinyl,
{UO2}2+, {NpO2}+ and {PuO2}2+, Cations; Uranium Coordination to
Environmentally Relevant Polyhydroxycarboxylate Ligands; Co-Crystallisation
Processes in a Study of Physiochemical Properties of Actinides and
Lanthanides in Lower Oxidation States; Monocarboxylate Complexes of Uranyl:
a Relativistic Density Functional Study; Coordination Chemistry of
Americium: Synthesis, Structure of Am(III) Iodates; The Performance of
Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory in the Simulation of the
Electronic Spectra of Molecular Uranium Complexes; The Effect of Solvent on
the Modelling of the Geometry and Vibrations of UO2(H2O)52+; Chapter Three:
Heavy Elements; Chemistry of Transactinides; Unusual Volatility of Oxides
Formed by Some Actinides; SISAK Liquid-Liquid Extraction Studies of
Rutherfordium and Future Plans to Study Heavier Transactinides; Development
of a System for Chemical Studies of Rutherfordium by Liquid-Liquid
Extraction From Sulphuric Acid Solutions with SISAK; Influence of KCl on
the Extraction of Rutherfordium Homologues Hafnium and Zirconium from
Sulphuric Acid with Tri-Octylamine in Toluene; Thermochromatographic
Adsorption Studies of Curium and Berkelium; Self-Diffusion Coefficients and
Structure of the Trivalent f-Element Ions, Eu3+, Am3+ and Bk3+ in Aqueous
Solution; Ceramic Plutonium Target Development for the MASHA Separator for
the Synthesis of Element 114; Chapter Four: Nuclear Fuels, Materials and
Waste Forms; Understanding and Predicting Self-Irradiation Effects in
Plutonium Alloys: A Coupled Experimental and Theoretical Approach;
Identifying and Quantifying Actinide Radiation Damage in ZrSiO4 Minerals
and ceramics with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; Lessons Drawn From Studies of
the Transmutation of Fuels Carried Out in the Framework of the French Law
of December 1991 on the Management of Long Lived Waste; Properties of Minor
Actinide Compounds Relevant to Nuclear Fuel Technology; Transformation
Characteristics of Isothermal Martensite in Pu-Ga Alloys; Reactivity of
Mixed Uranium and Plutonium Nitride with Silicon Carbide as Materials for
Gas Cooled Fast Reactors; Confinement of Plutonium and Thorium in
Monazite/Brabantite, in View of Actinide Conditioning; Physical and
Electronic Properties Changed by Aging Plutonium; Corrosion Resistance of
Uranium Metal Surface with CO and SCCO2 Treatment; Pyrochemical Processing
of Plutonium at AWE; Uranium Ion Valences in Perovskite, Zirconolite and
Pyrochlore from Near Infrared Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy; Thermal and
Mechanical Properties of Simulated High Burnup Uranium Oxide Fuels;
Thermodynamic Modelling and Analyses of Molten Salt Reactor Fuel; Structure
of the Americium Pyrochlore Am2Zr2O7 and its Evolution Under Alpha
Self-Irradiation; Local Structure of Th1-XMXO2 Solid Solutions with M = U,
Pu; First-Principles Phase Diagram of the Ce-Th System; Crystal Stability
and Equation of State for Am: Theory; XPS Study of High Temperature
Oxidation of a Plutonium Alloy Under Vacuum; Phase Relation of Mixed Oxide
Fuel Containing Np and Am; Study on Corrosion Resistance Improvement of U
and U-Nb Alloys by Ion Implantation with Niobium; Simulation by External
Irradiation of Self-Irradiation Effects on Thorium Phosphate Diphosphate
(?-TPD) - Consequences for Its Dissolution; From Thorium
Phosphate-Hydrogenphosphate Hydrate to Thorium Phosphate-Diphosphate : A
New Way of Preparation of ? TPD and Associated Solid Solutions with
Actinides; Invariant Equilibria in Binary Plutonium Phase Diagrams,
Relationships; Photoemission and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Study of
Uranium Passivation by C+ Implantation; Optical Metallography of Plutonium;
New Family of Intermetallic Hydrides: U2T2InHx and U2T2SnHx;
Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis of Actinide-Containing
Pyrochlore-Type Matrices; Relation Between Solubility and Local Environment
of Actinides and Surrogates in Borosilicate Glasses; Electrochemical
Studies of Uranium Metal Corrosion Mechanism and Kinetics in Water; The
Effect of Oxygen Potential on the Sintering Behaviour of MOX Fuel
Containing Americium; Variation of Lattice Parameter and Thermal Expansion
Coefficient of (U,Er)O2 as a Function of ErO1.5 Content; An Experimental
Investigation of Effects of Americium Addition to (U, Pu)O2-X on Phase
Relation; Molecular Dynamics Studies of Uranium-Plutonium Mixed Oxide
Fuels; Thermodynamic Modelling of the Uranium-Zirconium-Iron-Oxygen System;
Nanoindentation Studies of Uranium Intermetallic Compounds;
Self-Irradiation of Ceramics and Single Crystals Doped with Plutonium-238;
Actinoid Phosphates of Kosnarite Structure; Monazite and Kosnarite-Based
Ceramics Containing Uranium and Plutonium; Application of ?eramicrete
Matrices for Low-Temperature Solidification of Liquid Actinides-Containing
Wastes; Ab Initio Study of Uranium and Plutonium Carbides and Nitride;
Effect of High Static Pressure on Crystaline and Electronic Structures of
Transition, Lanthanide and Actinide Metals; Positron Annihilation
Spectroscopy: A Powerful Tool to Investigate the Early Stages of
Self-Irradiation Effects in ?-Pu Alloys; High Pressure X-Ray Diffraction
Study of a Pu0.92Am0.08 Binary Alloy; Calculation of the Critical
Concentration of Helium Release From Uranium Tritide; Recycle of Calcium in
Incineration Process of Low Level Radioactive Wastes; Vaporization
Behaviour of Pu-Cd Intermetallic Compounds; Development of the Scientific
Concept of the Phosphate Methods for Actinide-Containing Waste Handling
(Pyrochemical Fuel Reprocessing); Synthesis and Investigations of the
Phosphates of Th, U, Np, Pu, Am and Lanthanides with Monazite, Zircon,
Kosnarite and Langbenite Mineral-Like Structures; Basic Concept of
Hydro-Pyro Hybrid Type Sulfide Process for Spent Fuel; Low Temperature
Selective Reduction of U3O8 in the Presence of Sulfurizing Agents; Chapter
Five: Separation and Solution Chemistry; Actinide Solution Chemistry And
Chemical Separations: Structure-Function Relationships In The Grand Scheme
Of Actinide Separations Science; X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Actinides
Involved in Toxicological Processes; Solubility and Redox Reactions of
Plutonium(IV) Hydrous Oxide in the Presence of Oxygen; Uranium Speciation
in Molten Salts from X-Ray Absorption and Electronic Absorption
Spectroscopy Measurements; The Separation of Plutonium from Uranium by
Solvent Extraction: Recent Developments for Advanced Fuel Cycles; Ternary
Complex Formation and Coordination Modes of Am, Cm and Rare Earths with
EDTA+NTA: Stability Constants, TRLFS and 13C NMR Studies; Influence of
Temperature and Ionic Strength on the Hydration of Curium(III) in Aqueous
Solution Studied with TRLFS; Insights into Third Phase Formation Using
Neptunium; Investigation of the Behavior of Am (IV), (V) And (VI) in
Alkaline Media; A Comparative Study of the Complexation Of Uranium(VI) with
Oxydiacetic Acid and its Amide Derivatives; Actinide Electrochemistry in
Low Temperature Ionic Liquids; New Data on Extraction of Nitric Acid with
30% TBP from Solutions Containing Uranyl Nitrate; New Data on Extraction of
Tetravalent Uranium With 30% TBP from Solutions Containing Uranyl Nitrate;
Behaviour Of Some Anhydrous U(IV) Complexes in Hydrophobic Room Temperature
Ionic Liquids; The Hydrolysis of Protactinium(V): Equilibrium Constants and
Determination of the Standard Thermodynamic Data; The Study of
Polymerization of Pu(OH)4 and its Solubility in 0.01M NaCl Solutions at
Various pH Values; Dissolution Of Actinide Oxides In Some Organic Reagents
Saturated With Nitric Acid; Separation of Uranium and Plutonium by the
Method of Countercurrent Chromatography; Alkaline Sequestrants in Hanford
Tank Waste Processing; Anion Control in Hanford Leachates by Solid-Liquid
Separation; Uranium Removal From Process Effluents Containing Chromate And
Aluminum Nitrate; Diffusion Coefficients of Actinide and Lanthinde Elements
in Liquid Metal for Reductive Extraction; Electrochemical and Spectroscopic
Characteristics of Uranium Ions in a Hydrate Melt; Spectroscopic Study for
the Oxychloride Precipitation of Neodymium and Uranium in Chloride Melts;
Extraction of Transuranium Elements and T?(VII) from Acid Solutions by
Neutral Phosphorous Compounds; Transuranium, Rare Earth Elements and
Technetium (VII) Extraction by Calix[4]Arenes From Acidic and Alkaline
Media; Adsorption Properties of Amidoxime Resins for Uranium(VI) and Some
Fission Products Soluble in Aqueous Carbonate Solutions; Solubility of
UO2(?-Diketonato)2DMSO Complexes (?-Diketonate = Acetylacetonate,
Trifluoroacetylacetonate, Hexafluoro-Acetylacetonate; DMSO = Dimethyl
Sulfoxide) In Supercritical CO2; Kinetic Study on Exchange Reaction of
Hexafluoroacetyl-Acetonate in Bis (Hexafluoroacetylacetonato) (Dimethyl
Sulfoxide) Dioxouranium(VI) in Supercritical CO2 by 19F NMR; Heat
Oscillating Extraction of Rare Earth Elements; Mathematical Model of
Extraction Separation of f-Elements in Non-Stationary Conditions; Final
Tests using the BNFL Electrorefiner at Harwell; Behaviour Of FPs And TRU in
a Fluoride Volatility Process; Specific Features of Kinetics and Mechanism
of Np(IV) Oxidation with Nitric Acid in Aqueous and TBP Solutions;
Lanthanide Salt Solutions: Representation Of Osmotic Coefficients Within
the Binding Mean Spherical Approximation; The Reduction of Np(VI) by
Acetohydroxamic Acid in Nitric Acid Solution; Photoreduction Of UO2F2
Enriched with 18O in Isopropanol Solution; Electrorefining of Plutonium in
Calcium Chloride; Separation of Minor Actinides and Lanthanides from Nitric
Acid Solution by R-BTP Extraction Resin; UC Electrochemical Behaviour in
Aqueous Solution; Redox Behaviour of Plutonium(IV) in Acidic Solutions; The
Effect of Fission Product Elements on the Chlorination of Uranium Metal in
Molten Salts; Spectroelectrochemical Studies of Uranium Behavior in
(Li-K)Cleut Based Melts At 450 ?C; Evaluation of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Systems
for Actinide Recycle in Feasibility Study on Commercialized Fast Reactor
Cycle Systems; Extraction of Transplutonium and Rare-Earth Elements with
the use of Zirconium Salt of Dibutyl Phosphoric Acid; The Effect of
Dibutylphosphoric Acid on Actinide (IV) Extraction by 30% TBP from
Solutions Containing Uranyl Nitrate; Sorption Properties of New Solid
Extractants Based on Malonamide Compounds; Direct Extraction of Uranium and
Plutonium with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide from MOX Fuel; Modelling the
Hydrolysis of Actinide Complexed Hydroxamic Acid Ligands; A New Approach
for Estimating Stability Constants Between Actinides and Organic Ligands by
Semi-Empirical Gibbs Energy Fragmental Method; Measurement of Some
Actinides Redox Potentials in TBP Medium With Ultramicroelectrode;
Development of High Throughput Electrorefining of Uranium in the Metallic
Fuel Cycle; Experimental Data Points to Existence of Plutonium (VIII) in
Alkaline Solutions; Control of Neptunium Routing During the Reprocessing of
Spent Nuclear Fuel Using PUREX; Crystallization Behavior of Uranium and
Plutonium in Nitric Acid Solution; A Hot Test on Minor Actinides Separation
from High-Level-Waste by CMPO/SiO2-P Extraction Resin; Recovery Of Uranium
and Plutonium Metals Through Cathode Processing of Electrodeposits from
Reduced Oxide Fuel Anodes; Kinetics of Electrochemical Generation of
Silver(II); Ionic Liquids for Actinides and Lanthanides Chemistry; Solvent
Extraction of Actinides by Tetraalkylpyridine-N-Oxide-Bis Phosphine Oxide
Complexants; Kinetics and Mechanism of Actinide Complexation by Polydentate
Ligands; The Significance of Minor Actinide Based Fuel Cycles in Advanced
Fuel Cycles; Separation of Uranium from Radioactive Waste using
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide with Nitric Acid - Tri-n-Butylphosphate
Complex; Chapter Six: Spectroscopy and Magnetism; Spectroscopic Actinide
Speciation for Nuclear Waste Disposal; Superconductivity in Actinide
Materials; Neutron Scattering Studies of NpTGa5 (T = Fe, Co, Ni and Rh);
Tuning the Superconducting Behaviour of the PuTGa5 Compounds; The
Electronic Structure of the Pu-Based Superconductor PuCoGa5: LSDA and
LSDA+U Investigations; Ground State and Solution Behaviour of Actinide Ions
Investigated by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Methods; Polarization Effects in
EXAFS Spectra at the Uranium L1 and L3 Edge - A Comparison Between Theory
and Experiment; A Study of the Competition Between Delocalization and
Spin-Orbit Splitting in the Actinide 5f States; A Crossover Effect of the
5f Electrons of Uranium Compounds: From Itinerant to Localized, With
Increasing Temperature; Localization of 5f Electrons and Phase Transitions
in Americium; Orbital Ordering in Actinide Oxides: New Perspectives on Old
Problems; Electronic Structure of ?-Pu: Theories and PES Experiments;
Magnetic Properties of Radiation Damage in Pu and Pu Alloys; A
Photoelectron Spectroscopy Investigation of the Early Stages of Neptunium
Oxidation; Electronic Structure of Molecular Actinide Compounds Through
Spectroscopic Experiments Combined with Theoretical Modelling; Influence of
Self-Irradiation Damage on the Superconducting Behaviour of Plutonium-Based
Compounds; MARS Beamline, A New Facility for Studying Radioactive Matter
from a Synchrotron Source; Solid State Synthesis and X-Ray Diffraction
Characterization of Pu3+(1-2x)Pu4+xCa2+xPO4; Chemiluminescence in
Solid-Phase Reactions of Uranium (IV) and Terbium (III) Compounds;
Chemiluminescent Reactions of Uranium and the Role of UO2+; Magnetic
Anisotropy of U2Co17-xSix Single Crystals; High-Field Magnetization of a
UIrGe Single Crystal; Comparative Photoemission Study of Actinide Metals,
Nitrides and Hydrides; Cathodoluminescence of Actinide Ions in Crystalline
Host Phases Electronic Structure of the Americium Monopnictides: Ab Initio
Calculations and Photoemission Experiments; Using Nano-Focussed
Bremstrahlung Isochromat Spectroscopy (nBIS) to Determine the Unoccupied
Electronic Structure of Pu: A Proposed Study Fluorescence Spectroscopy of
Protactinium(IV); Pu, Np and U Valence States and the Determination of
their Molecular Form by Chemiluminescence and Pulsed Laser Spectroscopy;
Air-Oxidation Behaviour of UO2 and Gd-Doped UO2 by XAS; Speciation Of
Radionuclides With Bioligands Using Time-Resolved Laser-Induced
Fluorescence (TRLIF) and Electrospray Mass Spectrometry (ES-MS); Magnetic
Diagrams of PuGa3 Under Pressure; Magnetic Ordering of U and Co Moments in
(Th,U)Co2X2 (X = Si, Ge) Solid Solutions; Spectroscopic Investigations of
Uranium Species in Alkali Chloride Molten Salts; Magnetic and Electrical
Properties of UCu3M2Al7 Alloys; X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of
Neptunium-Containing Ceramics on the Basis of Ferrite and Titanate (6P23);
Subject Index
Chapter One: Analysis, the Environment and Biotransformations;
Biotransformation of Actinides; Microbial Transformations of Actinides in
Transuranic- and Mixed-Wastes: Implications for Radioactive-Waste Disposal;
A Brief Review of the Enzymatic Reduction of Tc, U, Np, and Pu by Bacteria;
Actinides - A Challenge for Nuclear Forensics; Non-Exchangeable Binding of
Radionuclides by Humic Substances: A Natural Chemical Analogue; On the
Multi-Spectroscopic Approach for Radionuclide/Mineral Interaction Modelling
in Aqueous Solutions; Compact Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: A Powerful
Tool to Measure Actinides in the Environment; Interaction Mechanisms of
Uranium with Bacterial Strains Isolated from Extreme Habitats; High
Sensitivity Plutonium Isotopic Analysis in Environmental and Monitoring
Samples; Speciation of the Oxidation States of Np and Pu in Aqueous
Solutions by CE-ICP-MS and CE-RIMS; Soft X-Ray Spectromicroscopy of
Actinide Particulates; Uranium Colloid Analysis by Single Particle
Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometry; Status of The European
Network for Actinide Sciences, ACTINET; Using Surface Imaging and
Analytical Techniques to Study the Calcite Surface in Contact with Aqueous
UO22+ Ions; Production of High-Purity 236Pu From 237Np by a Photonuclear
Reaction; Decontamination of Soils in Liquid ?O2; A Novel Hydrogen Uranyl
Phosphate-Based Bio-Inorganic Ion Exchanger for the Removal of 60Co, 85Sr
And 137Cs from Aqueous Solutions; Effect of Closo-Dodecacarborane Ion
Exchangers on the Potentiometric Response of Ionophore-Based Ion-Selective
Electrodes; Geochemical and Microbial Controls on Decomposition and
Dispersion of Depleted Uranium (DU) in the Environment: An Overview of
Current Research and the Development of Methods for Handling DU
Microparticulates; Fibrous "Filled" Sorbents for the Preconcentration of
Actinides and Technetium; Np(V) Sorption to Goethite in the Presence of
Natural and Hydroquinone-Enriched Humic Acids; Sorption of Np(IV) and Np(V)
by Depleted Uranium Dioxide; The Recommended Values of 239Pu and 240Pu
Concentrations in IAEA Standard Reference Material Estimated by Three
Measuring Methods: Isotope Dilution-Thermal Ionizaton Mass Spectrometry,
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry and Alpha Spectrometry; A
Sequential Separation Procedure for Pu, Am, U and Np Isotopes in Soils and
Liquid Samples; Combination of Alpha Track Analysis, Fission Track Analysis
with SEM-EDX and SIMS to Study Spatial Distribution of Actinides; Aspects
of UO3 Dissolution Kinetics; Determining the Radiation Damage Effect on
Glovebox Glove Materials; Plutonium-Humate Complexation in Natural
Groundwater by XPS; Uranium Sorption and Solubility Under Conditions
Relevant for the Radioactive Waste Repository in Morsleben / Germany; The
Application of Colloidal Photocatalysis in Actinide Photoredox Chemistry;
Study of the Chemical Scheme of ?-TUPD Solid Solution Alteration;
Solubility Studies of Uranium(IV) by Laser-Induced Breakdown Detection
(LIBD); Resonance Ionisation Mass Spectrometry for Element- and
Isotope-Selective Trace Analysis of Actinides in Environmental
Micro-Particles; The Romanian Uranium Industry- Its Past and Future in the
Context of The Strengthening and Integration of the European Research Area;
Uranium and Neptunium Sorption onto Magnetite Under Suboxic Conditions; The
Application of Avalanche Photodiodes for the Measurement of Actinides by
Alpha Liquid Scintillation Counting; The Effect of Uranium on the Corrosion
of Stainless Steel in High Temperature Molten Salts in the Presence of
Moisture; Reactions of the Feldspar Surface: Surface Composition and
Microtopography After Contact with Radionuclides and Heavy Metals; The
Influence of Oxalate on the Partitioning of Trivalent f-Elements to
Hematite; Mechanisms for the Reduction of Actinide Ions by Geobacter
Sulfurreducens; Oxidation and Surface Complexation of Actinyl Species by
Oxides; Chapter Two: Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry;
Structure-Property Relationships in Novel Actinide Compounds with Heavy
Oxoanions; On the Role of f-Obitals in the Bonding in f-Element Complexes:
the "Feudal" Model as Applied to Organoactinide and Actinide Aquo
Complexes; New Catalytic Reactions Promoted by Organoactinides;
Octacoordinate Soft Donor Complexes of Trivalent and Tetravalent Lanthanide
and Actinide Cations; Structure and Stability of Peroxo Complexes of
Uranium and Plutonium in Carbonate Solution; Sequestered Plutonium:
Structural Characterisation and Complex Formation of Pu(IV) Complexes with
Siderophore-Like Ligands; Extraction of Actinides by Functionalised
Calixarenes; 5f Element Complexes with 'Soft' Donor Atom Ligands: Eight
Coordinate Pu(III) Pyrazinyl and Thioether Complexes; Plutonium(V)
Chemistry in Neutral Aqueous Complexing Media: New Crystal Compounds
Synthesis and Study of their Structure and Properties; Management of
Transuranic Actinide Containing Materials in Nuclear Clean up in the UK;
Extending the Chemistry of the Uranyl Ion: {UO2}2+ Acting as a Lewis Acid
and a Lewis Base; Covalency in Uranium Complexes and New f-Element
Chemistry that Exploits Soft Organometallic Carbene Ligands; Variability in
the Crystal Structures of Uranium(VI), Neptunium(VI) and Plutonium(VI)
Phthalates; Novel Neptunyl(V) and Plutonyl(V) Bi-Oxalate Compounds:
Synthesis, Properties and Structure; Synthesis and Crystal Structure of a
New Np(V) Oxalate, Na4(NpO2)2(C2O4)3.6H2O; Plutonyl(V) Malonate Compounds:
Synthesis and Properties; Crystal Compounds of Plutonyl(V) Monooxalate
Complex; Solid Compounds of Np(V) with
2,4,6-Tri-(2-Pyridyl)-1,3,5-Triazine: Crystal Structure, Spectral and
Thermal Properties; Complex Formation of Np(V) with Picolinic, Nicotinic
and Isonicotinic Acids; The Stability of a Uranyl(V) Benzoyl Acetonate
Complex in Dimethyl Sulfoxide; Preparation of Uranium(III) Perchlorate in
N,N-Dimethylformamide and Other Aprotic Media; Bent Metal Carbenes -
Electrostatic Bonds vs Covalency in Organometallic Actinide Chemistry;
Uranyl Complexation by a Hinged Polypyrrolic Macrocycle; Hydrogen Bonding
with the Uranyl Oxo Atom and Enforced ??Stacking in the Equatorial Plane;
Structure of Trivalent Americium and Lanthanide Complexes with Phosphoryl
Acetic Acid Amides; Surprising Activity of Organoactinide Complexes in the
Polymerization of Cyclic Mono- and Diesters; The Affinity of N Donor
Ligands in AnO22+ Complexes and Synthetic Routes to New Neptunyl Chemistry;
Synthesis and Crystal Structure Determination of Some Mixed Oxalates of
Actinide(s) and/or Lanthanide and Monovalent Cations (NH4+ or N2H5+);
Complexation of a B-Type Unsaturated Polyoxoanion, [BiW9O33]9-, to Actinyl,
{UO2}2+, {NpO2}+ and {PuO2}2+, Cations; Uranium Coordination to
Environmentally Relevant Polyhydroxycarboxylate Ligands; Co-Crystallisation
Processes in a Study of Physiochemical Properties of Actinides and
Lanthanides in Lower Oxidation States; Monocarboxylate Complexes of Uranyl:
a Relativistic Density Functional Study; Coordination Chemistry of
Americium: Synthesis, Structure of Am(III) Iodates; The Performance of
Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory in the Simulation of the
Electronic Spectra of Molecular Uranium Complexes; The Effect of Solvent on
the Modelling of the Geometry and Vibrations of UO2(H2O)52+; Chapter Three:
Heavy Elements; Chemistry of Transactinides; Unusual Volatility of Oxides
Formed by Some Actinides; SISAK Liquid-Liquid Extraction Studies of
Rutherfordium and Future Plans to Study Heavier Transactinides; Development
of a System for Chemical Studies of Rutherfordium by Liquid-Liquid
Extraction From Sulphuric Acid Solutions with SISAK; Influence of KCl on
the Extraction of Rutherfordium Homologues Hafnium and Zirconium from
Sulphuric Acid with Tri-Octylamine in Toluene; Thermochromatographic
Adsorption Studies of Curium and Berkelium; Self-Diffusion Coefficients and
Structure of the Trivalent f-Element Ions, Eu3+, Am3+ and Bk3+ in Aqueous
Solution; Ceramic Plutonium Target Development for the MASHA Separator for
the Synthesis of Element 114; Chapter Four: Nuclear Fuels, Materials and
Waste Forms; Understanding and Predicting Self-Irradiation Effects in
Plutonium Alloys: A Coupled Experimental and Theoretical Approach;
Identifying and Quantifying Actinide Radiation Damage in ZrSiO4 Minerals
and ceramics with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; Lessons Drawn From Studies of
the Transmutation of Fuels Carried Out in the Framework of the French Law
of December 1991 on the Management of Long Lived Waste; Properties of Minor
Actinide Compounds Relevant to Nuclear Fuel Technology; Transformation
Characteristics of Isothermal Martensite in Pu-Ga Alloys; Reactivity of
Mixed Uranium and Plutonium Nitride with Silicon Carbide as Materials for
Gas Cooled Fast Reactors; Confinement of Plutonium and Thorium in
Monazite/Brabantite, in View of Actinide Conditioning; Physical and
Electronic Properties Changed by Aging Plutonium; Corrosion Resistance of
Uranium Metal Surface with CO and SCCO2 Treatment; Pyrochemical Processing
of Plutonium at AWE; Uranium Ion Valences in Perovskite, Zirconolite and
Pyrochlore from Near Infrared Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy; Thermal and
Mechanical Properties of Simulated High Burnup Uranium Oxide Fuels;
Thermodynamic Modelling and Analyses of Molten Salt Reactor Fuel; Structure
of the Americium Pyrochlore Am2Zr2O7 and its Evolution Under Alpha
Self-Irradiation; Local Structure of Th1-XMXO2 Solid Solutions with M = U,
Pu; First-Principles Phase Diagram of the Ce-Th System; Crystal Stability
and Equation of State for Am: Theory; XPS Study of High Temperature
Oxidation of a Plutonium Alloy Under Vacuum; Phase Relation of Mixed Oxide
Fuel Containing Np and Am; Study on Corrosion Resistance Improvement of U
and U-Nb Alloys by Ion Implantation with Niobium; Simulation by External
Irradiation of Self-Irradiation Effects on Thorium Phosphate Diphosphate
(?-TPD) - Consequences for Its Dissolution; From Thorium
Phosphate-Hydrogenphosphate Hydrate to Thorium Phosphate-Diphosphate : A
New Way of Preparation of ? TPD and Associated Solid Solutions with
Actinides; Invariant Equilibria in Binary Plutonium Phase Diagrams,
Relationships; Photoemission and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Study of
Uranium Passivation by C+ Implantation; Optical Metallography of Plutonium;
New Family of Intermetallic Hydrides: U2T2InHx and U2T2SnHx;
Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis of Actinide-Containing
Pyrochlore-Type Matrices; Relation Between Solubility and Local Environment
of Actinides and Surrogates in Borosilicate Glasses; Electrochemical
Studies of Uranium Metal Corrosion Mechanism and Kinetics in Water; The
Effect of Oxygen Potential on the Sintering Behaviour of MOX Fuel
Containing Americium; Variation of Lattice Parameter and Thermal Expansion
Coefficient of (U,Er)O2 as a Function of ErO1.5 Content; An Experimental
Investigation of Effects of Americium Addition to (U, Pu)O2-X on Phase
Relation; Molecular Dynamics Studies of Uranium-Plutonium Mixed Oxide
Fuels; Thermodynamic Modelling of the Uranium-Zirconium-Iron-Oxygen System;
Nanoindentation Studies of Uranium Intermetallic Compounds;
Self-Irradiation of Ceramics and Single Crystals Doped with Plutonium-238;
Actinoid Phosphates of Kosnarite Structure; Monazite and Kosnarite-Based
Ceramics Containing Uranium and Plutonium; Application of ?eramicrete
Matrices for Low-Temperature Solidification of Liquid Actinides-Containing
Wastes; Ab Initio Study of Uranium and Plutonium Carbides and Nitride;
Effect of High Static Pressure on Crystaline and Electronic Structures of
Transition, Lanthanide and Actinide Metals; Positron Annihilation
Spectroscopy: A Powerful Tool to Investigate the Early Stages of
Self-Irradiation Effects in ?-Pu Alloys; High Pressure X-Ray Diffraction
Study of a Pu0.92Am0.08 Binary Alloy; Calculation of the Critical
Concentration of Helium Release From Uranium Tritide; Recycle of Calcium in
Incineration Process of Low Level Radioactive Wastes; Vaporization
Behaviour of Pu-Cd Intermetallic Compounds; Development of the Scientific
Concept of the Phosphate Methods for Actinide-Containing Waste Handling
(Pyrochemical Fuel Reprocessing); Synthesis and Investigations of the
Phosphates of Th, U, Np, Pu, Am and Lanthanides with Monazite, Zircon,
Kosnarite and Langbenite Mineral-Like Structures; Basic Concept of
Hydro-Pyro Hybrid Type Sulfide Process for Spent Fuel; Low Temperature
Selective Reduction of U3O8 in the Presence of Sulfurizing Agents; Chapter
Five: Separation and Solution Chemistry; Actinide Solution Chemistry And
Chemical Separations: Structure-Function Relationships In The Grand Scheme
Of Actinide Separations Science; X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Actinides
Involved in Toxicological Processes; Solubility and Redox Reactions of
Plutonium(IV) Hydrous Oxide in the Presence of Oxygen; Uranium Speciation
in Molten Salts from X-Ray Absorption and Electronic Absorption
Spectroscopy Measurements; The Separation of Plutonium from Uranium by
Solvent Extraction: Recent Developments for Advanced Fuel Cycles; Ternary
Complex Formation and Coordination Modes of Am, Cm and Rare Earths with
EDTA+NTA: Stability Constants, TRLFS and 13C NMR Studies; Influence of
Temperature and Ionic Strength on the Hydration of Curium(III) in Aqueous
Solution Studied with TRLFS; Insights into Third Phase Formation Using
Neptunium; Investigation of the Behavior of Am (IV), (V) And (VI) in
Alkaline Media; A Comparative Study of the Complexation Of Uranium(VI) with
Oxydiacetic Acid and its Amide Derivatives; Actinide Electrochemistry in
Low Temperature Ionic Liquids; New Data on Extraction of Nitric Acid with
30% TBP from Solutions Containing Uranyl Nitrate; New Data on Extraction of
Tetravalent Uranium With 30% TBP from Solutions Containing Uranyl Nitrate;
Behaviour Of Some Anhydrous U(IV) Complexes in Hydrophobic Room Temperature
Ionic Liquids; The Hydrolysis of Protactinium(V): Equilibrium Constants and
Determination of the Standard Thermodynamic Data; The Study of
Polymerization of Pu(OH)4 and its Solubility in 0.01M NaCl Solutions at
Various pH Values; Dissolution Of Actinide Oxides In Some Organic Reagents
Saturated With Nitric Acid; Separation of Uranium and Plutonium by the
Method of Countercurrent Chromatography; Alkaline Sequestrants in Hanford
Tank Waste Processing; Anion Control in Hanford Leachates by Solid-Liquid
Separation; Uranium Removal From Process Effluents Containing Chromate And
Aluminum Nitrate; Diffusion Coefficients of Actinide and Lanthinde Elements
in Liquid Metal for Reductive Extraction; Electrochemical and Spectroscopic
Characteristics of Uranium Ions in a Hydrate Melt; Spectroscopic Study for
the Oxychloride Precipitation of Neodymium and Uranium in Chloride Melts;
Extraction of Transuranium Elements and T?(VII) from Acid Solutions by
Neutral Phosphorous Compounds; Transuranium, Rare Earth Elements and
Technetium (VII) Extraction by Calix[4]Arenes From Acidic and Alkaline
Media; Adsorption Properties of Amidoxime Resins for Uranium(VI) and Some
Fission Products Soluble in Aqueous Carbonate Solutions; Solubility of
UO2(?-Diketonato)2DMSO Complexes (?-Diketonate = Acetylacetonate,
Trifluoroacetylacetonate, Hexafluoro-Acetylacetonate; DMSO = Dimethyl
Sulfoxide) In Supercritical CO2; Kinetic Study on Exchange Reaction of
Hexafluoroacetyl-Acetonate in Bis (Hexafluoroacetylacetonato) (Dimethyl
Sulfoxide) Dioxouranium(VI) in Supercritical CO2 by 19F NMR; Heat
Oscillating Extraction of Rare Earth Elements; Mathematical Model of
Extraction Separation of f-Elements in Non-Stationary Conditions; Final
Tests using the BNFL Electrorefiner at Harwell; Behaviour Of FPs And TRU in
a Fluoride Volatility Process; Specific Features of Kinetics and Mechanism
of Np(IV) Oxidation with Nitric Acid in Aqueous and TBP Solutions;
Lanthanide Salt Solutions: Representation Of Osmotic Coefficients Within
the Binding Mean Spherical Approximation; The Reduction of Np(VI) by
Acetohydroxamic Acid in Nitric Acid Solution; Photoreduction Of UO2F2
Enriched with 18O in Isopropanol Solution; Electrorefining of Plutonium in
Calcium Chloride; Separation of Minor Actinides and Lanthanides from Nitric
Acid Solution by R-BTP Extraction Resin; UC Electrochemical Behaviour in
Aqueous Solution; Redox Behaviour of Plutonium(IV) in Acidic Solutions; The
Effect of Fission Product Elements on the Chlorination of Uranium Metal in
Molten Salts; Spectroelectrochemical Studies of Uranium Behavior in
(Li-K)Cleut Based Melts At 450 ?C; Evaluation of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Systems
for Actinide Recycle in Feasibility Study on Commercialized Fast Reactor
Cycle Systems; Extraction of Transplutonium and Rare-Earth Elements with
the use of Zirconium Salt of Dibutyl Phosphoric Acid; The Effect of
Dibutylphosphoric Acid on Actinide (IV) Extraction by 30% TBP from
Solutions Containing Uranyl Nitrate; Sorption Properties of New Solid
Extractants Based on Malonamide Compounds; Direct Extraction of Uranium and
Plutonium with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide from MOX Fuel; Modelling the
Hydrolysis of Actinide Complexed Hydroxamic Acid Ligands; A New Approach
for Estimating Stability Constants Between Actinides and Organic Ligands by
Semi-Empirical Gibbs Energy Fragmental Method; Measurement of Some
Actinides Redox Potentials in TBP Medium With Ultramicroelectrode;
Development of High Throughput Electrorefining of Uranium in the Metallic
Fuel Cycle; Experimental Data Points to Existence of Plutonium (VIII) in
Alkaline Solutions; Control of Neptunium Routing During the Reprocessing of
Spent Nuclear Fuel Using PUREX; Crystallization Behavior of Uranium and
Plutonium in Nitric Acid Solution; A Hot Test on Minor Actinides Separation
from High-Level-Waste by CMPO/SiO2-P Extraction Resin; Recovery Of Uranium
and Plutonium Metals Through Cathode Processing of Electrodeposits from
Reduced Oxide Fuel Anodes; Kinetics of Electrochemical Generation of
Silver(II); Ionic Liquids for Actinides and Lanthanides Chemistry; Solvent
Extraction of Actinides by Tetraalkylpyridine-N-Oxide-Bis Phosphine Oxide
Complexants; Kinetics and Mechanism of Actinide Complexation by Polydentate
Ligands; The Significance of Minor Actinide Based Fuel Cycles in Advanced
Fuel Cycles; Separation of Uranium from Radioactive Waste using
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide with Nitric Acid - Tri-n-Butylphosphate
Complex; Chapter Six: Spectroscopy and Magnetism; Spectroscopic Actinide
Speciation for Nuclear Waste Disposal; Superconductivity in Actinide
Materials; Neutron Scattering Studies of NpTGa5 (T = Fe, Co, Ni and Rh);
Tuning the Superconducting Behaviour of the PuTGa5 Compounds; The
Electronic Structure of the Pu-Based Superconductor PuCoGa5: LSDA and
LSDA+U Investigations; Ground State and Solution Behaviour of Actinide Ions
Investigated by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Methods; Polarization Effects in
EXAFS Spectra at the Uranium L1 and L3 Edge - A Comparison Between Theory
and Experiment; A Study of the Competition Between Delocalization and
Spin-Orbit Splitting in the Actinide 5f States; A Crossover Effect of the
5f Electrons of Uranium Compounds: From Itinerant to Localized, With
Increasing Temperature; Localization of 5f Electrons and Phase Transitions
in Americium; Orbital Ordering in Actinide Oxides: New Perspectives on Old
Problems; Electronic Structure of ?-Pu: Theories and PES Experiments;
Magnetic Properties of Radiation Damage in Pu and Pu Alloys; A
Photoelectron Spectroscopy Investigation of the Early Stages of Neptunium
Oxidation; Electronic Structure of Molecular Actinide Compounds Through
Spectroscopic Experiments Combined with Theoretical Modelling; Influence of
Self-Irradiation Damage on the Superconducting Behaviour of Plutonium-Based
Compounds; MARS Beamline, A New Facility for Studying Radioactive Matter
from a Synchrotron Source; Solid State Synthesis and X-Ray Diffraction
Characterization of Pu3+(1-2x)Pu4+xCa2+xPO4; Chemiluminescence in
Solid-Phase Reactions of Uranium (IV) and Terbium (III) Compounds;
Chemiluminescent Reactions of Uranium and the Role of UO2+; Magnetic
Anisotropy of U2Co17-xSix Single Crystals; High-Field Magnetization of a
UIrGe Single Crystal; Comparative Photoemission Study of Actinide Metals,
Nitrides and Hydrides; Cathodoluminescence of Actinide Ions in Crystalline
Host Phases Electronic Structure of the Americium Monopnictides: Ab Initio
Calculations and Photoemission Experiments; Using Nano-Focussed
Bremstrahlung Isochromat Spectroscopy (nBIS) to Determine the Unoccupied
Electronic Structure of Pu: A Proposed Study Fluorescence Spectroscopy of
Protactinium(IV); Pu, Np and U Valence States and the Determination of
their Molecular Form by Chemiluminescence and Pulsed Laser Spectroscopy;
Air-Oxidation Behaviour of UO2 and Gd-Doped UO2 by XAS; Speciation Of
Radionuclides With Bioligands Using Time-Resolved Laser-Induced
Fluorescence (TRLIF) and Electrospray Mass Spectrometry (ES-MS); Magnetic
Diagrams of PuGa3 Under Pressure; Magnetic Ordering of U and Co Moments in
(Th,U)Co2X2 (X = Si, Ge) Solid Solutions; Spectroscopic Investigations of
Uranium Species in Alkali Chloride Molten Salts; Magnetic and Electrical
Properties of UCu3M2Al7 Alloys; X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of
Neptunium-Containing Ceramics on the Basis of Ferrite and Titanate (6P23);
Subject Index
Biotransformation of Actinides; Microbial Transformations of Actinides in
Transuranic- and Mixed-Wastes: Implications for Radioactive-Waste Disposal;
A Brief Review of the Enzymatic Reduction of Tc, U, Np, and Pu by Bacteria;
Actinides - A Challenge for Nuclear Forensics; Non-Exchangeable Binding of
Radionuclides by Humic Substances: A Natural Chemical Analogue; On the
Multi-Spectroscopic Approach for Radionuclide/Mineral Interaction Modelling
in Aqueous Solutions; Compact Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: A Powerful
Tool to Measure Actinides in the Environment; Interaction Mechanisms of
Uranium with Bacterial Strains Isolated from Extreme Habitats; High
Sensitivity Plutonium Isotopic Analysis in Environmental and Monitoring
Samples; Speciation of the Oxidation States of Np and Pu in Aqueous
Solutions by CE-ICP-MS and CE-RIMS; Soft X-Ray Spectromicroscopy of
Actinide Particulates; Uranium Colloid Analysis by Single Particle
Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometry; Status of The European
Network for Actinide Sciences, ACTINET; Using Surface Imaging and
Analytical Techniques to Study the Calcite Surface in Contact with Aqueous
UO22+ Ions; Production of High-Purity 236Pu From 237Np by a Photonuclear
Reaction; Decontamination of Soils in Liquid ?O2; A Novel Hydrogen Uranyl
Phosphate-Based Bio-Inorganic Ion Exchanger for the Removal of 60Co, 85Sr
And 137Cs from Aqueous Solutions; Effect of Closo-Dodecacarborane Ion
Exchangers on the Potentiometric Response of Ionophore-Based Ion-Selective
Electrodes; Geochemical and Microbial Controls on Decomposition and
Dispersion of Depleted Uranium (DU) in the Environment: An Overview of
Current Research and the Development of Methods for Handling DU
Microparticulates; Fibrous "Filled" Sorbents for the Preconcentration of
Actinides and Technetium; Np(V) Sorption to Goethite in the Presence of
Natural and Hydroquinone-Enriched Humic Acids; Sorption of Np(IV) and Np(V)
by Depleted Uranium Dioxide; The Recommended Values of 239Pu and 240Pu
Concentrations in IAEA Standard Reference Material Estimated by Three
Measuring Methods: Isotope Dilution-Thermal Ionizaton Mass Spectrometry,
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry and Alpha Spectrometry; A
Sequential Separation Procedure for Pu, Am, U and Np Isotopes in Soils and
Liquid Samples; Combination of Alpha Track Analysis, Fission Track Analysis
with SEM-EDX and SIMS to Study Spatial Distribution of Actinides; Aspects
of UO3 Dissolution Kinetics; Determining the Radiation Damage Effect on
Glovebox Glove Materials; Plutonium-Humate Complexation in Natural
Groundwater by XPS; Uranium Sorption and Solubility Under Conditions
Relevant for the Radioactive Waste Repository in Morsleben / Germany; The
Application of Colloidal Photocatalysis in Actinide Photoredox Chemistry;
Study of the Chemical Scheme of ?-TUPD Solid Solution Alteration;
Solubility Studies of Uranium(IV) by Laser-Induced Breakdown Detection
(LIBD); Resonance Ionisation Mass Spectrometry for Element- and
Isotope-Selective Trace Analysis of Actinides in Environmental
Micro-Particles; The Romanian Uranium Industry- Its Past and Future in the
Context of The Strengthening and Integration of the European Research Area;
Uranium and Neptunium Sorption onto Magnetite Under Suboxic Conditions; The
Application of Avalanche Photodiodes for the Measurement of Actinides by
Alpha Liquid Scintillation Counting; The Effect of Uranium on the Corrosion
of Stainless Steel in High Temperature Molten Salts in the Presence of
Moisture; Reactions of the Feldspar Surface: Surface Composition and
Microtopography After Contact with Radionuclides and Heavy Metals; The
Influence of Oxalate on the Partitioning of Trivalent f-Elements to
Hematite; Mechanisms for the Reduction of Actinide Ions by Geobacter
Sulfurreducens; Oxidation and Surface Complexation of Actinyl Species by
Oxides; Chapter Two: Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry;
Structure-Property Relationships in Novel Actinide Compounds with Heavy
Oxoanions; On the Role of f-Obitals in the Bonding in f-Element Complexes:
the "Feudal" Model as Applied to Organoactinide and Actinide Aquo
Complexes; New Catalytic Reactions Promoted by Organoactinides;
Octacoordinate Soft Donor Complexes of Trivalent and Tetravalent Lanthanide
and Actinide Cations; Structure and Stability of Peroxo Complexes of
Uranium and Plutonium in Carbonate Solution; Sequestered Plutonium:
Structural Characterisation and Complex Formation of Pu(IV) Complexes with
Siderophore-Like Ligands; Extraction of Actinides by Functionalised
Calixarenes; 5f Element Complexes with 'Soft' Donor Atom Ligands: Eight
Coordinate Pu(III) Pyrazinyl and Thioether Complexes; Plutonium(V)
Chemistry in Neutral Aqueous Complexing Media: New Crystal Compounds
Synthesis and Study of their Structure and Properties; Management of
Transuranic Actinide Containing Materials in Nuclear Clean up in the UK;
Extending the Chemistry of the Uranyl Ion: {UO2}2+ Acting as a Lewis Acid
and a Lewis Base; Covalency in Uranium Complexes and New f-Element
Chemistry that Exploits Soft Organometallic Carbene Ligands; Variability in
the Crystal Structures of Uranium(VI), Neptunium(VI) and Plutonium(VI)
Phthalates; Novel Neptunyl(V) and Plutonyl(V) Bi-Oxalate Compounds:
Synthesis, Properties and Structure; Synthesis and Crystal Structure of a
New Np(V) Oxalate, Na4(NpO2)2(C2O4)3.6H2O; Plutonyl(V) Malonate Compounds:
Synthesis and Properties; Crystal Compounds of Plutonyl(V) Monooxalate
Complex; Solid Compounds of Np(V) with
2,4,6-Tri-(2-Pyridyl)-1,3,5-Triazine: Crystal Structure, Spectral and
Thermal Properties; Complex Formation of Np(V) with Picolinic, Nicotinic
and Isonicotinic Acids; The Stability of a Uranyl(V) Benzoyl Acetonate
Complex in Dimethyl Sulfoxide; Preparation of Uranium(III) Perchlorate in
N,N-Dimethylformamide and Other Aprotic Media; Bent Metal Carbenes -
Electrostatic Bonds vs Covalency in Organometallic Actinide Chemistry;
Uranyl Complexation by a Hinged Polypyrrolic Macrocycle; Hydrogen Bonding
with the Uranyl Oxo Atom and Enforced ??Stacking in the Equatorial Plane;
Structure of Trivalent Americium and Lanthanide Complexes with Phosphoryl
Acetic Acid Amides; Surprising Activity of Organoactinide Complexes in the
Polymerization of Cyclic Mono- and Diesters; The Affinity of N Donor
Ligands in AnO22+ Complexes and Synthetic Routes to New Neptunyl Chemistry;
Synthesis and Crystal Structure Determination of Some Mixed Oxalates of
Actinide(s) and/or Lanthanide and Monovalent Cations (NH4+ or N2H5+);
Complexation of a B-Type Unsaturated Polyoxoanion, [BiW9O33]9-, to Actinyl,
{UO2}2+, {NpO2}+ and {PuO2}2+, Cations; Uranium Coordination to
Environmentally Relevant Polyhydroxycarboxylate Ligands; Co-Crystallisation
Processes in a Study of Physiochemical Properties of Actinides and
Lanthanides in Lower Oxidation States; Monocarboxylate Complexes of Uranyl:
a Relativistic Density Functional Study; Coordination Chemistry of
Americium: Synthesis, Structure of Am(III) Iodates; The Performance of
Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory in the Simulation of the
Electronic Spectra of Molecular Uranium Complexes; The Effect of Solvent on
the Modelling of the Geometry and Vibrations of UO2(H2O)52+; Chapter Three:
Heavy Elements; Chemistry of Transactinides; Unusual Volatility of Oxides
Formed by Some Actinides; SISAK Liquid-Liquid Extraction Studies of
Rutherfordium and Future Plans to Study Heavier Transactinides; Development
of a System for Chemical Studies of Rutherfordium by Liquid-Liquid
Extraction From Sulphuric Acid Solutions with SISAK; Influence of KCl on
the Extraction of Rutherfordium Homologues Hafnium and Zirconium from
Sulphuric Acid with Tri-Octylamine in Toluene; Thermochromatographic
Adsorption Studies of Curium and Berkelium; Self-Diffusion Coefficients and
Structure of the Trivalent f-Element Ions, Eu3+, Am3+ and Bk3+ in Aqueous
Solution; Ceramic Plutonium Target Development for the MASHA Separator for
the Synthesis of Element 114; Chapter Four: Nuclear Fuels, Materials and
Waste Forms; Understanding and Predicting Self-Irradiation Effects in
Plutonium Alloys: A Coupled Experimental and Theoretical Approach;
Identifying and Quantifying Actinide Radiation Damage in ZrSiO4 Minerals
and ceramics with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; Lessons Drawn From Studies of
the Transmutation of Fuels Carried Out in the Framework of the French Law
of December 1991 on the Management of Long Lived Waste; Properties of Minor
Actinide Compounds Relevant to Nuclear Fuel Technology; Transformation
Characteristics of Isothermal Martensite in Pu-Ga Alloys; Reactivity of
Mixed Uranium and Plutonium Nitride with Silicon Carbide as Materials for
Gas Cooled Fast Reactors; Confinement of Plutonium and Thorium in
Monazite/Brabantite, in View of Actinide Conditioning; Physical and
Electronic Properties Changed by Aging Plutonium; Corrosion Resistance of
Uranium Metal Surface with CO and SCCO2 Treatment; Pyrochemical Processing
of Plutonium at AWE; Uranium Ion Valences in Perovskite, Zirconolite and
Pyrochlore from Near Infrared Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy; Thermal and
Mechanical Properties of Simulated High Burnup Uranium Oxide Fuels;
Thermodynamic Modelling and Analyses of Molten Salt Reactor Fuel; Structure
of the Americium Pyrochlore Am2Zr2O7 and its Evolution Under Alpha
Self-Irradiation; Local Structure of Th1-XMXO2 Solid Solutions with M = U,
Pu; First-Principles Phase Diagram of the Ce-Th System; Crystal Stability
and Equation of State for Am: Theory; XPS Study of High Temperature
Oxidation of a Plutonium Alloy Under Vacuum; Phase Relation of Mixed Oxide
Fuel Containing Np and Am; Study on Corrosion Resistance Improvement of U
and U-Nb Alloys by Ion Implantation with Niobium; Simulation by External
Irradiation of Self-Irradiation Effects on Thorium Phosphate Diphosphate
(?-TPD) - Consequences for Its Dissolution; From Thorium
Phosphate-Hydrogenphosphate Hydrate to Thorium Phosphate-Diphosphate : A
New Way of Preparation of ? TPD and Associated Solid Solutions with
Actinides; Invariant Equilibria in Binary Plutonium Phase Diagrams,
Relationships; Photoemission and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Study of
Uranium Passivation by C+ Implantation; Optical Metallography of Plutonium;
New Family of Intermetallic Hydrides: U2T2InHx and U2T2SnHx;
Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis of Actinide-Containing
Pyrochlore-Type Matrices; Relation Between Solubility and Local Environment
of Actinides and Surrogates in Borosilicate Glasses; Electrochemical
Studies of Uranium Metal Corrosion Mechanism and Kinetics in Water; The
Effect of Oxygen Potential on the Sintering Behaviour of MOX Fuel
Containing Americium; Variation of Lattice Parameter and Thermal Expansion
Coefficient of (U,Er)O2 as a Function of ErO1.5 Content; An Experimental
Investigation of Effects of Americium Addition to (U, Pu)O2-X on Phase
Relation; Molecular Dynamics Studies of Uranium-Plutonium Mixed Oxide
Fuels; Thermodynamic Modelling of the Uranium-Zirconium-Iron-Oxygen System;
Nanoindentation Studies of Uranium Intermetallic Compounds;
Self-Irradiation of Ceramics and Single Crystals Doped with Plutonium-238;
Actinoid Phosphates of Kosnarite Structure; Monazite and Kosnarite-Based
Ceramics Containing Uranium and Plutonium; Application of ?eramicrete
Matrices for Low-Temperature Solidification of Liquid Actinides-Containing
Wastes; Ab Initio Study of Uranium and Plutonium Carbides and Nitride;
Effect of High Static Pressure on Crystaline and Electronic Structures of
Transition, Lanthanide and Actinide Metals; Positron Annihilation
Spectroscopy: A Powerful Tool to Investigate the Early Stages of
Self-Irradiation Effects in ?-Pu Alloys; High Pressure X-Ray Diffraction
Study of a Pu0.92Am0.08 Binary Alloy; Calculation of the Critical
Concentration of Helium Release From Uranium Tritide; Recycle of Calcium in
Incineration Process of Low Level Radioactive Wastes; Vaporization
Behaviour of Pu-Cd Intermetallic Compounds; Development of the Scientific
Concept of the Phosphate Methods for Actinide-Containing Waste Handling
(Pyrochemical Fuel Reprocessing); Synthesis and Investigations of the
Phosphates of Th, U, Np, Pu, Am and Lanthanides with Monazite, Zircon,
Kosnarite and Langbenite Mineral-Like Structures; Basic Concept of
Hydro-Pyro Hybrid Type Sulfide Process for Spent Fuel; Low Temperature
Selective Reduction of U3O8 in the Presence of Sulfurizing Agents; Chapter
Five: Separation and Solution Chemistry; Actinide Solution Chemistry And
Chemical Separations: Structure-Function Relationships In The Grand Scheme
Of Actinide Separations Science; X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Actinides
Involved in Toxicological Processes; Solubility and Redox Reactions of
Plutonium(IV) Hydrous Oxide in the Presence of Oxygen; Uranium Speciation
in Molten Salts from X-Ray Absorption and Electronic Absorption
Spectroscopy Measurements; The Separation of Plutonium from Uranium by
Solvent Extraction: Recent Developments for Advanced Fuel Cycles; Ternary
Complex Formation and Coordination Modes of Am, Cm and Rare Earths with
EDTA+NTA: Stability Constants, TRLFS and 13C NMR Studies; Influence of
Temperature and Ionic Strength on the Hydration of Curium(III) in Aqueous
Solution Studied with TRLFS; Insights into Third Phase Formation Using
Neptunium; Investigation of the Behavior of Am (IV), (V) And (VI) in
Alkaline Media; A Comparative Study of the Complexation Of Uranium(VI) with
Oxydiacetic Acid and its Amide Derivatives; Actinide Electrochemistry in
Low Temperature Ionic Liquids; New Data on Extraction of Nitric Acid with
30% TBP from Solutions Containing Uranyl Nitrate; New Data on Extraction of
Tetravalent Uranium With 30% TBP from Solutions Containing Uranyl Nitrate;
Behaviour Of Some Anhydrous U(IV) Complexes in Hydrophobic Room Temperature
Ionic Liquids; The Hydrolysis of Protactinium(V): Equilibrium Constants and
Determination of the Standard Thermodynamic Data; The Study of
Polymerization of Pu(OH)4 and its Solubility in 0.01M NaCl Solutions at
Various pH Values; Dissolution Of Actinide Oxides In Some Organic Reagents
Saturated With Nitric Acid; Separation of Uranium and Plutonium by the
Method of Countercurrent Chromatography; Alkaline Sequestrants in Hanford
Tank Waste Processing; Anion Control in Hanford Leachates by Solid-Liquid
Separation; Uranium Removal From Process Effluents Containing Chromate And
Aluminum Nitrate; Diffusion Coefficients of Actinide and Lanthinde Elements
in Liquid Metal for Reductive Extraction; Electrochemical and Spectroscopic
Characteristics of Uranium Ions in a Hydrate Melt; Spectroscopic Study for
the Oxychloride Precipitation of Neodymium and Uranium in Chloride Melts;
Extraction of Transuranium Elements and T?(VII) from Acid Solutions by
Neutral Phosphorous Compounds; Transuranium, Rare Earth Elements and
Technetium (VII) Extraction by Calix[4]Arenes From Acidic and Alkaline
Media; Adsorption Properties of Amidoxime Resins for Uranium(VI) and Some
Fission Products Soluble in Aqueous Carbonate Solutions; Solubility of
UO2(?-Diketonato)2DMSO Complexes (?-Diketonate = Acetylacetonate,
Trifluoroacetylacetonate, Hexafluoro-Acetylacetonate; DMSO = Dimethyl
Sulfoxide) In Supercritical CO2; Kinetic Study on Exchange Reaction of
Hexafluoroacetyl-Acetonate in Bis (Hexafluoroacetylacetonato) (Dimethyl
Sulfoxide) Dioxouranium(VI) in Supercritical CO2 by 19F NMR; Heat
Oscillating Extraction of Rare Earth Elements; Mathematical Model of
Extraction Separation of f-Elements in Non-Stationary Conditions; Final
Tests using the BNFL Electrorefiner at Harwell; Behaviour Of FPs And TRU in
a Fluoride Volatility Process; Specific Features of Kinetics and Mechanism
of Np(IV) Oxidation with Nitric Acid in Aqueous and TBP Solutions;
Lanthanide Salt Solutions: Representation Of Osmotic Coefficients Within
the Binding Mean Spherical Approximation; The Reduction of Np(VI) by
Acetohydroxamic Acid in Nitric Acid Solution; Photoreduction Of UO2F2
Enriched with 18O in Isopropanol Solution; Electrorefining of Plutonium in
Calcium Chloride; Separation of Minor Actinides and Lanthanides from Nitric
Acid Solution by R-BTP Extraction Resin; UC Electrochemical Behaviour in
Aqueous Solution; Redox Behaviour of Plutonium(IV) in Acidic Solutions; The
Effect of Fission Product Elements on the Chlorination of Uranium Metal in
Molten Salts; Spectroelectrochemical Studies of Uranium Behavior in
(Li-K)Cleut Based Melts At 450 ?C; Evaluation of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Systems
for Actinide Recycle in Feasibility Study on Commercialized Fast Reactor
Cycle Systems; Extraction of Transplutonium and Rare-Earth Elements with
the use of Zirconium Salt of Dibutyl Phosphoric Acid; The Effect of
Dibutylphosphoric Acid on Actinide (IV) Extraction by 30% TBP from
Solutions Containing Uranyl Nitrate; Sorption Properties of New Solid
Extractants Based on Malonamide Compounds; Direct Extraction of Uranium and
Plutonium with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide from MOX Fuel; Modelling the
Hydrolysis of Actinide Complexed Hydroxamic Acid Ligands; A New Approach
for Estimating Stability Constants Between Actinides and Organic Ligands by
Semi-Empirical Gibbs Energy Fragmental Method; Measurement of Some
Actinides Redox Potentials in TBP Medium With Ultramicroelectrode;
Development of High Throughput Electrorefining of Uranium in the Metallic
Fuel Cycle; Experimental Data Points to Existence of Plutonium (VIII) in
Alkaline Solutions; Control of Neptunium Routing During the Reprocessing of
Spent Nuclear Fuel Using PUREX; Crystallization Behavior of Uranium and
Plutonium in Nitric Acid Solution; A Hot Test on Minor Actinides Separation
from High-Level-Waste by CMPO/SiO2-P Extraction Resin; Recovery Of Uranium
and Plutonium Metals Through Cathode Processing of Electrodeposits from
Reduced Oxide Fuel Anodes; Kinetics of Electrochemical Generation of
Silver(II); Ionic Liquids for Actinides and Lanthanides Chemistry; Solvent
Extraction of Actinides by Tetraalkylpyridine-N-Oxide-Bis Phosphine Oxide
Complexants; Kinetics and Mechanism of Actinide Complexation by Polydentate
Ligands; The Significance of Minor Actinide Based Fuel Cycles in Advanced
Fuel Cycles; Separation of Uranium from Radioactive Waste using
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide with Nitric Acid - Tri-n-Butylphosphate
Complex; Chapter Six: Spectroscopy and Magnetism; Spectroscopic Actinide
Speciation for Nuclear Waste Disposal; Superconductivity in Actinide
Materials; Neutron Scattering Studies of NpTGa5 (T = Fe, Co, Ni and Rh);
Tuning the Superconducting Behaviour of the PuTGa5 Compounds; The
Electronic Structure of the Pu-Based Superconductor PuCoGa5: LSDA and
LSDA+U Investigations; Ground State and Solution Behaviour of Actinide Ions
Investigated by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Methods; Polarization Effects in
EXAFS Spectra at the Uranium L1 and L3 Edge - A Comparison Between Theory
and Experiment; A Study of the Competition Between Delocalization and
Spin-Orbit Splitting in the Actinide 5f States; A Crossover Effect of the
5f Electrons of Uranium Compounds: From Itinerant to Localized, With
Increasing Temperature; Localization of 5f Electrons and Phase Transitions
in Americium; Orbital Ordering in Actinide Oxides: New Perspectives on Old
Problems; Electronic Structure of ?-Pu: Theories and PES Experiments;
Magnetic Properties of Radiation Damage in Pu and Pu Alloys; A
Photoelectron Spectroscopy Investigation of the Early Stages of Neptunium
Oxidation; Electronic Structure of Molecular Actinide Compounds Through
Spectroscopic Experiments Combined with Theoretical Modelling; Influence of
Self-Irradiation Damage on the Superconducting Behaviour of Plutonium-Based
Compounds; MARS Beamline, A New Facility for Studying Radioactive Matter
from a Synchrotron Source; Solid State Synthesis and X-Ray Diffraction
Characterization of Pu3+(1-2x)Pu4+xCa2+xPO4; Chemiluminescence in
Solid-Phase Reactions of Uranium (IV) and Terbium (III) Compounds;
Chemiluminescent Reactions of Uranium and the Role of UO2+; Magnetic
Anisotropy of U2Co17-xSix Single Crystals; High-Field Magnetization of a
UIrGe Single Crystal; Comparative Photoemission Study of Actinide Metals,
Nitrides and Hydrides; Cathodoluminescence of Actinide Ions in Crystalline
Host Phases Electronic Structure of the Americium Monopnictides: Ab Initio
Calculations and Photoemission Experiments; Using Nano-Focussed
Bremstrahlung Isochromat Spectroscopy (nBIS) to Determine the Unoccupied
Electronic Structure of Pu: A Proposed Study Fluorescence Spectroscopy of
Protactinium(IV); Pu, Np and U Valence States and the Determination of
their Molecular Form by Chemiluminescence and Pulsed Laser Spectroscopy;
Air-Oxidation Behaviour of UO2 and Gd-Doped UO2 by XAS; Speciation Of
Radionuclides With Bioligands Using Time-Resolved Laser-Induced
Fluorescence (TRLIF) and Electrospray Mass Spectrometry (ES-MS); Magnetic
Diagrams of PuGa3 Under Pressure; Magnetic Ordering of U and Co Moments in
(Th,U)Co2X2 (X = Si, Ge) Solid Solutions; Spectroscopic Investigations of
Uranium Species in Alkali Chloride Molten Salts; Magnetic and Electrical
Properties of UCu3M2Al7 Alloys; X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of
Neptunium-Containing Ceramics on the Basis of Ferrite and Titanate (6P23);
Subject Index