Table of Contents

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.