This volume entitled "Radionuclides and Heavy Metals in Environment" contains the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) "Monitoring of Natural and Man-Made Radionuclides and Heavy Metal Waste in Environment" that was held at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JlNR), Dubna, Russia from 3 October to 6 October, 2000. Originally, it was planned to held the ARW in 1999, the year when NATO was celebrating its 50th anniversary. Few days before opening it had to be postponed because of problems in issuing visa for all the colleagues who intended to participate. The ARW was organized and conducted by the co-directors Prof. Vladimir P. Perelygin, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia and Dr. Peter Vater, Philipps Universitat, Marburg, Germany. The JlNR was chosen as the host institute of ARW because of the lack of contact and real co-operation between the former Soviet Union (FSU) countries specialists in ecology and their Western well experienced colleagues. The selection of this location and supplementary funds provided by Russian Foundation on Basic Research, Moscow, Russia, and the JINR, Dubna., Russia made it possible to attain a rather large number of participants and observers from FSU countries. The JlNR provided to all the participants of the workshop an effective car/minibus transportation Moscow-Dubna-Moscow and a rather good accommodation in Dubna.

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1. Man Made Radionuclides in Environment and Living Species.- Tracking the Behaviour of Plutonium in Man.- Accelerator Mass Spectrometry for Plutonium Isotopes: Methods and Procedures.- Man-Made Plutonium in Environment Possible Hazard for Human Health.- 90Sr and 137Cs Activity in Surface Soil Samples from Some Areas Affected by the MAYAK Plutonium Production Association.- Actinide Determination in Environment (Liquids, Soils, Aerosols).- Chernobyl Hot Particles: Radionuclide Composition and Contribution in the Total Soil Radioactivity.- Dating of Radioactive Contamination of a Locality in the Southern Regions of the Western Kazakhstan.- Destruction of Fuel Particles from the Chernobyl Fail-Out on the Territory of Belarus.- Determination of Actinides in Biological Samples in Belarus.- Determination of Diffusion Coefficients of In, Cd, Hf and Pu Hydrated Ions in Aqueous Solutions Using the Method of Horizontal Zone Electrophoresis in Free Electrolyte.- High Sensitive Determinations of Pu and Am Content in Human Tissues.- Isotopic Composition of Uranium in the Products of Accidental Ejection from the Chernobyl NPP.- Methods of High Sensitive Analysis of Actinides in Liquid Radioactive Waste.- Non-Destructive Method of Pu and U Isotope Determination in Specimens.- Radioecological Analysis of Vietnam Soil Samples.- Radioecological Researches in INP NNC RK (Almaty).- Radioisotopes in Life Sciences. The Production of High-Pure Radionuclide Sources at FLNR, JINR.- Radionuclides in Bones of Wild, Herbivorous Animals from North-Eastem Poland.- Some Man-Made and Natural Radionuclide Profiles in the Bottom Sediments of the Black Sea.- The Contamination of Belarus Territory by Transuranium Elements.- Trace Element Analysis of Actinides in Natural Watersand Soils Using (?, f) Reaction.- Treatment of Radioactive Waste Solutions Using Local Clay Minerals.- 2. Heavy Metals in Environment.- Use of Mosses to Monitor Trace Element Deposition from the Atmosphere: Why and How.- Biomonitoring Trace Element Atmospheric Deposition: An Internationally Harmonised Approach.- Study of Trace Elements in Annual Segments of Moss Biomonitors Using Epithermal Neutron Activation Analysis: Link with Atmospheric Aerosol.- The Use of Lichens and Mosses to Monitor Trace Element Pollution in Slovenia.- New Results from Air Pollution Studies in Romania.- Neutron Activation Analysis of Surficial Sediments from the South-West Part of the Black Sea.- Nuclear and Related Analytical Techniques Used to Study the Anthropogenic Impact on the Sister River in the Vicinity of the town of Klin (Moscow Region, Russia).- Enzymatic Method for Heavy Metals Determination in Waters and Soils.- Heavy Metals in Food Products and Biological Samples from the Gdansk District.- Human Hair Composition in Environment Monitoring and Mapping.- Environmental Sampling and Analysis of Coal Fly Ash Intended for Use in Roads: Potential Impacts on Environmental Health Decision-Making.- The Pollution of the Environment Caused by Lead Dumping After the Chomobyl NPP Accident Myth or Reality?.- Development of the Method of Bacterial Leaching of Metals Out of Low- Grade Ores, Rocks and Industrial Wastes Using Neutron Activation Analysis.- 3. Radioactivity and Heavy Metals in Environment; Natural Radioactivity; Earthquakes.- About a Complex Method to Predict Earthquakes Based on Observations of Rn, H2, He, Ne, Organic Gases and Heavy Elements from Aerosols.- Chemical Nature of Seismic Phenomena.- Determination of Radionuclides, Toxic Heavy Metals and Trace Elements inEnvironmental Samples.- Development of Simultaneously Radon and Gamma Measurements to Carry out Monitoring into the Environment Applications to Survey of Nuclear Waste Storage.- Dynamics of Subsoil Radon within the Geodynamically Active Regions of Turkmenistan.- Low Activity Beta-Alpha Radiometer (LABAR).- Monitoring and Management of Mountain Environment.- Radionuclide and Heavy Metal Pollution in Romania.- Radon Over Volcanic and Seismic Areas.- Rapid Changes of Some Geophysical Parameters in the Nature.- Some Global Environmental Issues of the 21st Century.- Track Methods of Measurements in the Environment Developed in Khlopin Radium Institute.- An Accelerator Based Nuclear Analytical Method for the Analysis of Environmental Samples.- 4. Transmutation of Man-Made Radionuclides.- ADS (Accelerator-Driven Systems) A New Technology to Destroy Completely Long-Lived Radwaste.- Electronuclear Technology for the Incineration of Plutonium.- Fission of Pb Nuclei Induced by 0.5,1.0,1.5,3.7 and 7.4 GeV Protons in the Volume of Massive U/Pb and Pb Targets.- Author Index.