Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 – The Products of Laser Ablated Thorium Atom Reactions with Small Molecules (pp. 1-28)
Lester Andrews (Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA)
Chapter 2 – Soil Profile Thorium and Uranium Concentration Distributions in Southeastern Missouri Soils (pp. 29-58)
Michael Aide, Donn Beighley and David Dunn (Department of Agriculture, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and others)
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Chapter 3 – Influence of a Coal-Fired Power Plant on the Thorium Levels in Soils and on the Radioactive Hazard for the Population (pp. 59-90)
Elena Charro and Rafael Pardo (LIBRA Laboratory, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, and others)
Chapter 4 – Behavior of Th-Isotopes along the Pigment Tio2 Industrial Production Process (pp. 91-108)
M. J. Gázquez, J. Mantero, S. Pérez-Moreno, R. García–Tenorio and J. P. Bolívar (Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad deHuelva, Huelva, Spain, and others)
Chapter 5 – Some Features of the Th Presence in the Poços De Caldas Alkaline Massif, Minas Gerais State, Brazil (pp. 109-132)
Daniel Marcos Bonotto (Departamento de Petrologia e Metalogenia, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Câmpus de Rio Claro, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brasil)
Chapter 6 – Thorium Occurrence: Geological and Geophysical Implications for Western Australia (pp. 133-178)
M. F. Middleton, J. Brett and D. Flint (Department of Mines and Petroleum, Western Australia, East Perth, Australia)
Chapter 7 – Thermophysical and Thermodynamic Properties of Oxygen-Containing Compounds of Thorium (pp. 179-210)
Alexander V. Knyazev and Marina E. Manyakina (Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia)
Chapter 8 – Unique Role of Thorium in Closed (Th-U-Pu)-Fuel Cycle due to the Involvement of Hybrid ―Fusion-Fission‖ Reactors with Th-Blanket to Generate Advanced (231Pa+232U+233U)-Fuel: Long-Life Power Reactor Cores and Non-Proliferation (pp. 211-240)
A. N. Shmelev, G. G. Kulikov, E. G. Kulikov, V. A. Apse and N. I. Geraskin (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Russia)
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