The Arctic cryosphere is collapsing, posing overlapping environmental risks. In particular,
thawing permafrost threatens to release biological, chemical and radioactive materials that …

The radioecological relevance of actinide particles 1 did not first become a matter of concern
following the nuclear accidents at Fukushima, Chernobyl, or Three Mile Island. Public and …

X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) and x-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) are advanced
x-ray spectroscopies that impact a wide range of disciplines. However, unlike the majority of …

The row of 15 chemical elements from Ac to Lr with atomic numbers from 89 to 103 are
known as the actinides, which are all radioactive. Among them, uranium and plutonium are …

A number of analytical methods have been developed in the past few years for
environmental monitoring of plutonium (Pu) isotopes around nuclear facilities within …

A series of different nuclear sources associated with the nuclear weapon and fuel cycles
have contributed to the release of radioactive particles to the environment. Following nuclear …

Synchrotron radiation (SR) based techniques have been utilized with increasing frequency
in the past decade to explore the brilliant and challenging sciences of actinide‐based …

Particle morphology is an emerging signature that has the potential to identify the
processing history of unknown nuclear materials. Using readily available scanning electron …

Micro X-ray fluorescence analysis (μ-XRF) is one of the newest branches of XRF, which has
developed very rapidly since 1990. In this review, we first discuss a number of papers that …

Laser-driven compact particle accelerators can provide ultrashort pulses of broadband X-
rays, well suited for undertaking X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements on a …