Call for papers - Special Issue on Depleted Uranium

[Bruce Busby <bbusby@gene.com>]

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Special Issue on Depleted Uranium

 CALL FOR PAPERS

 The Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, published by Elsevier
 Science Ltd., plans to produce a Special Issue on the hard science
 behind the depleted uranium (DU) controversy, i.e. on the environmental

 distribution, dosimetry and epidemiology  of DU in war zones and test
 grounds. Some of the topics to be covered in the JER Special Issue are:

 I. ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF DU CONTAMINATION
 · Distributions and Physico-chemical forms of DU in the environment..
 · Verification of DU presence in the environment through measurements
of
 U-235/U-238 ratios.
 · Kinetics of DU in air, water and soil.
 · DU transfer mechanisms.
 · Exposure of the population - DU intake pathways.
 · Management of contaminated territories.

 II. HEALTH EFFECTS FROM DU
 · Acute exposure to DU.
 · Long term exposure.
 · Epidemiology of exposed populations.
 · Methods and techniques for dose reconstruction.

  There is at present a considerable research effort being focused on
 collecting data, modeling and building the theory pertaining to the
 behavior of DU in the environment and the effects of the usage of DU
 weapons on human populations (military and civilian) and on biota. The
 aim of the JER Special Issue is to collect in a single dedicated volume

 the knowledge available today on this subject. Because of the
topicality
 and importance of the subject, the Editors of JER are willing to
 fast-track peer-review and publishing, while at the same time
 maintaining the high standards of JER. Thus, the deadline for receipt
of
 manuscripts has been set at 1 June, 2001.
  Prospective authors should submit their manuscripts and address all
 inquiries to the Guest Editor of the Special Issue, P.A.
Assimakopoulos,
 The University of Ioannina, Department of Physics, 45110 Ioannina,
 Greece, pasimak@cc.uoi.gr. Instructions to the authors with regard to
 the format of the manuscript may be found attached or at the Elsevier
 web site: http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/4/0/5/8/6/1/

 Ioannina, 12 February, 2001

 Panayotis A. Assimakopoulos
 Guest Editor

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Bruce Busby


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