TY - JOUR
T1 - Nuclear and radiochemistry in China
T2 - Present status and future perspectives
AU - Shi, W. Q.
AU - Zhao, Y. L.
AU - Chai, Z. F.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgment. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 91026007) and the “Strategic Priority Research Program” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA03010401 and No. XDA03010403). The authors would also like to thank Professors Hui He, Jun Li, Chunli Liu, Xue-gang Liu, Zhi Qin, Xiangke Wang, Guoan Ye, Huabei Zhang, Sheng-dong Zhang, Zhiyong Zhang, Drs. Dongqi Wang, Liyong Yuan, Zijie Li, and Jianhui Lan for providing valuable information and penetrating discussions. Prof. S.M Qaim is highly acknowledged for his encouragement and advice regarding the preparation of this manuscript.
Funding Information:
been taking positive measures to enhance China’s radiochemistry recovery. After years of efforts, nowadays China’s radiochemistry is at the recovery stage and keeps the upward trend, whose main signs are: (1) Under the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Education and National Defence Science and Industry Bureau, some key radiochemistry laboratories are being established. (2) The Ministry of Education has formally included the nuclear chemistry and radiochemistry in the curriculum catalog for higher education, ranking it with the same status as inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. The enrollment of undergraduate and graduate students majoring in radiochemistry is beginning to continuously improve. Correspondingly, the radiochemical research in China has been expanding fast in recent years, and now almost all the important areas of radiochemistry are being covered in Chinese main research institutes and universities. The related information is shown in Table 1.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Nuclear and radiochemistry is one of the frontier areas of chemistry with high impact on national security, energy supply, scientific advances, social and economic development. Nuclear and radiochemistry in China is now experiencing a renaissance, which is being strongly motivated by China's huge demand for nuclear energy. With this in review, the progress in nuclear and radiochemistry of China is selectively addressed. Some hot topics have been summarized and the main research results achieved by Chinese scientists in this field are highlighted, with emphasis on the basic nuclear chemistry, actinide and trans-actinide chemistry, chemistry of spent nuclear fuel reprocessing, radioanalytical chemistry, environmental radiochemistry and radiopharmaceutical chemistry, etc. Some measures about how to promote the radiochemical education and research in China are suggested, and future perspectives are briefly outlined as well.
AB - Nuclear and radiochemistry is one of the frontier areas of chemistry with high impact on national security, energy supply, scientific advances, social and economic development. Nuclear and radiochemistry in China is now experiencing a renaissance, which is being strongly motivated by China's huge demand for nuclear energy. With this in review, the progress in nuclear and radiochemistry of China is selectively addressed. Some hot topics have been summarized and the main research results achieved by Chinese scientists in this field are highlighted, with emphasis on the basic nuclear chemistry, actinide and trans-actinide chemistry, chemistry of spent nuclear fuel reprocessing, radioanalytical chemistry, environmental radiochemistry and radiopharmaceutical chemistry, etc. Some measures about how to promote the radiochemical education and research in China are suggested, and future perspectives are briefly outlined as well.
KW - Actinides
KW - China
KW - Education and training
KW - Nuclear energy chemistry
KW - Radioanalytical chemistry
KW - Radiopharmaceutical chemistry
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U2 - 10.1524/ract.2012.1955
DO - 10.1524/ract.2012.1955
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84866366573
SN - 0033-8230
VL - 100
SP - 529
EP - 539
JO - Radiochimica Acta
JF - Radiochimica Acta
IS - 8-9
ER -