The Microbiology of Nuclear Waste Disposal is a state-of-the-art reference featuring contributions focusing on the impact of microbes on the safe long-term disposal of nuclear waste. Planning for suitable facilities in the US, Europe, and Asia has been based mainly on knowledge from the geological and physical sciences. However, recent studies have shown that microbial life can proliferate in the inhospitable environments associated with radioactive waste disposal, and can control the long-term fate of nuclear materials. This can have beneficial and damaging impacts, which need to be quantified. The Microbiology of Nuclear Waste Disposal is the first to cover this important emerging topic. It is written for a wide audience encompassing regulators, implementers, academics and other stakeholders. It is also of interest to those working on the wider exploitation of the subsurface such as bioremediation, carbon capture and storage, geothermal energy, and water quality. Encompasses expertise from both the bio and geo disciplines aiming to foster important collaborations across this disciplinary divideIncludes reviews and research papers from leading groups in the fieldsWith plans progressing for geological disposal facilities worldwide, includes timely research for planning and safety case development INDICE: 1. Introduction2. Waste types and national inventories3. Analogue sites4. Deep subsurface baseline geomicrobiology5. Molecular techniques for understanding microbial abundance and activity in wasteforms6. Organic materials and their microbial fate in radioactive waste7. Microbial impacts on gas production in ILW; Finnish perspective8. Halophilic microbial metabolism and impact on radwaste disposal in salt deposits9. ILW and the biobarrier concept10. Microbial transformations of radionuclides in radwaste11. Bentonite geomicrobiology12. Modeling approaches to support safety case development13. Microbial production and metabolism of hydrogen in GDFs14. Stakeholder engagement; communicating microbial impacts on radwaste to key stakeholders
- ISBN: 978-0-12-818695-4
- Editorial: Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2020
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés