When radiochemistry meets radioecology (the marine environment)
- PMID: 38754516
- DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173247
When radiochemistry meets radioecology (the marine environment)
Abstract
After the first atomic bomb test in Alamogordo in July 1945, followed by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs in August 1945, radioecology became recognized as a branch of ecology in response to the radioactive fallout associated with the subsequent proliferation of atmospheric nuclear weapons testing which continued throughout the Cold War. In parallel, environmental radiochemistry emerged in the 70s to understand the chemical behavior of possible nuclear contaminants of the environment. In this discussion we stress the need to crosslink radioecology and chemical speciation, where radiochemistry and radioecology should meet to go beyond the present state of the art. Accordingly, we are seeking a methodology that calls for several angles of investigation: speciation (chemistry), toxicology (physiology and biology), accumulation data (environmental studies), distribution (geochemistry).
Keywords: Marine environment; Nuclear; Radiochemistry; Radioecology.
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Conflict of interest statement
Declaration of competing interest DEN AUWER Christophe reports financial support was provided by Université Côte Azur. If there are other authors, they declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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