Book description
Written by chemists for chemists, this is a comprehensive guide to the
important radionuclides as well as techniques for their separation and
analysis. It introduces readers to the important laboratory techniques
and methodologies in the field, providing practical instructions on how
to handle nuclear waste and radioactivity in the environment.
Professor Jukka Lehto is the head of the Laboratory of Radiochemistry at
the Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki. He attained his PhD
degree in 1987 at the University of Helsinki. Since 1980 he has worked
as a teaching assistant, senior lecturer at the University of Helsinki,
visiting researcher at Texas A&M University, USA, senior research
fellow of the Academy of Finland, acting professor and since 2005 as a
professor in radiochemistry. Professor Lehto's main research areas have
been nuclear waste management and disposal, and environmental
radioactivity studies. He has published 160 scientific and technical
papers and patents, and also published a book on the principles of
radioactivity and radiochemistry in Finnish.
Xiaolin Hou obtained his PhD degree in nuclear and radioanalytical
chemistry from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997. He joined Ris?
National Laboratory, Denmark, in 1998 (in 2007 Ris? became part of the
Technical University of Denmark), and has been a senior scientist there
since 2003. His primary research interests are radiochemical and
speciation analysis of radionuclides, nuclear and radioanalytical
techniques, environmental radioactivity, radiotracer application,
radiolabeling and protein adsorption on surfaces. Dr. Hou has
authored/co-authored more than 110 research articles in peer reviewed
scientific journals and 7 book chapters.
