Environmental Radiochemical Analysis V

Book Preface

Environmental Radiochemical Analysis V is a collection of refereed papers presented at the 12th Symposium on Nuclear and Environmental Radiochemical Analysis – ERA12 – held in Bath, UK in September 2014. This is the fifth of the Symposia to have its proceedings published by the RSC.

The Symposium is run by the Radiochemistry Group of the RSC and is held every four years. The Symposium is continuing to adapt to the challenging, and changing, UK radiochemistry community and the environment it is working in. Those attending the event included regulators, suppliers, customers, students and researchers. As well as representatives from the UK there were participants from 18 other countries present in the full two and a half days of presentations and posters, showing the international reach achieved.

I am particularly grateful to all the members of the Organising Committee for their roles in making the Symposium a success;

Peter Warwick, Loughborough
Dave Wickendon, Magnox
Kinson Leonard, CEFAS
Francis Livens, Manchester
Tony Ware, Treasurer
Ian Croudace, Southampton
Phil Warwick, Southampton

And especially to Claire Lowe, Loughborough, Secretary to the Organising Committee for keeping us on the straight and narrow.

Finally a grateful thanks to the exhibitors and to the sponsors of the event – AWE, Canberra and National Nuclear Laboratory and to RWM for sponsoring this publication. Their support, together with everyone else, made ERA12 a great success.

Paul Thompson,
Chair of the Organising and Technical Committee, ERA12