Biotechnology for Waste Management and Site Restoration covers: waste management - solid, gaseous, liquid; site restoration - radioactivity, organics, toxic metals; educational, economic, social and business aspects; and international collaboration.
International collaboration is growing apace and many concrete projects have been started. The body of knowledge is growing. Over the long term, it is envisaged that this international collaboration will result in a long-term scientific and technological strategy, new technologies and alternative solutions, and practical implementations of biotechnology for the nuclear and industrial sectors of the economy.

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Biotechnology for Waste Management and Site Restoration covers: waste management - solid, gaseous, liquid; site restoration - radioactivity, organics, toxic metals; educational, economic, social and business aspects; and international collaboration. International collaboration is growing apace and many concrete projects have been started. The body of knowledge is growing. Over the long term, it is envisaged that this international collaboration will result in a long-term scientific and technological strategy, new technologies and alternative solutions, and practical implementations of biotechnology for the nuclear and industrial sectors of the economy.

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1. General Considerations.- I. Biotechnology: technical aspects.- II. The social, economic, business, and policy dimensions of bioremediation techniques.- III. Biotechnology of radioactive wastes: a general overview.- IV. The interface between scientific research education and training.- V. Environmental biotechnology in research and education.- 2. Radioactive Pollution.- I. Radioactive pollution.- II. Physico-chemical characterization of particle fallout from a damaged nuclear reactor-conseqences for remediation procedures.- III. Radioecological aspects on the interaction of radionuclides and heavy metals with biomass: methods for speciation and structural information.- IV. The possibility for microbially-influenced degradation of cement solidified low-level radioactive waste forms.- 3. Heavy Metal Pollution.- I. Removal of heavy metal ions: Application of Flotation and Biosorption.- II. Heavy metal pollution.- III. Complex treatment of drainage from tailing pond of hydrometallurgical plant processed uranium ore.- IV. Iron oxidation of sulfuric water pickling liquors by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans and crystallisation of ferric and ammonium sutphates.- 4. Biosorbents.- I. Utilisation of chitin-chitosan biosorbents for environmental deactivation and radioactive waste management.- II. Aspects of the production of bio- and phyto-sorbents for radionuclides and heavy metals.- III. Physico-chemical and adsorption properties of bio-sorbents and mechanisms of their interaction with radionuclides: The electron structure of the complexes of Cs, Sr, Y, Pu ions wilh biosorbents containing chitin.- IV. Normative aspects: biosorption: is it necessary to standardize a protocol for comparing biosorbents?.- 5. Treatment Of Gases.- Biological gas treatment: general aspects.- 6. Organic Pollutants.- I. Biotechnologies for remediation of organic pollution.- II. The increase of biological treatment efficiency in petroleum refineries and petrochemical wastewaters by acclimated microorganisms.- III. Degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by microorganisms from contaminated soil.- 7. Perspectives for Site Restoration.- I. Application of biotechnologies in the management of post-accidental wastes.- II. Radiological characterization of the environmental contamination of the former Olen radium extraction plant possibilities for remediation.- III. Prospect of alternatives in agro-chemical site remediation.- IV. Behaviour of radionuclides and heavy metals in soils and possibility of elimination of their negative impact.- V. Biotechnological approaches to the restoration of areas contaminated by radioactivity.- List of Contributors.- List of Participants.