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Here is a selection of some of our recent publications:

2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 and Earlier | Laboratory Thesis

2001

  • Gallagher, D., McGee, E.J. and Mitchell, P.I. (in press), ‘A recent history of C-14, Cs-137 and Pb-210 accumulation in Irish peat bogs: An east versus west coast comparison’, RadioCarbon Conference, June 2000, Jerusalem.

  • Ledgerwood, F.K., Larmour, R.A., Ryan, R.W., León Vintró, L. and Mitchell, P.I. (in press), ‘Artificial Radioactivity in Strangford Lough’. Environment and Heritage Service Report, Department of the Environment, Northern Ireland.

  • León Vintró, L., McMahon, C.A., Mitchell, P.I., Josefsson, D., Holm, E. and Roos, P. (in press), ‘Transport of plutonium in surface and sub-surface waters from the Laptev Sea to the North Pole via the Lomonosov Ridge’, J. Environ. Radioactivity.

  • Nowlan, N.V., Mitchell, P.I., Murray, D.A., León-Vintró, L. and Seymour, E.M. (in press), ‘Measurement and interpretation of Pb-210, Cs-137, Cs-134 and Am-241 profiles in relation to sedimentation in some Irish lakes’, Verh. Int. Ver. Limnol.

  • Organo, C., Kapsimalis, V., León Vintró, L., Massé, L., Smith, K.J., Mitchell, P.I. and Tastet, J.-P. (in press), ‘Sediment record on the tidal flat of Le Verdon (Gironde Estuary, SW France): A radionuclide and lithological study’, In: Proc. VIIth International Colloquium on The Oceanography of the Biscay Gulf , 4–6 April 2000, Biarritz.

  • Mitchell, P.I., Downes, A.B., León-Vintró, L., and McMahon, C.A. (2001), ‘Studies of the speciation, colloidal association and remobilisation of plutonium in the marine environment’, In: Plutonium in the Environment, A. Kudo (Ed.), Elsevier Science, pp. 79-104.


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2000

  • Gallagher, D., McGee, E.J., Kalin, R.M. and Mitchell, P.I. (2000), ‘Performance of models for radiocarbon dating of groundwater: An appraisal using selected Irish aquifers’, RadioCarbon 42(2), 235-248.

  • León Vintró, L. and Mitchell, P.I. (2000), ‘Determination of Actinides and Other Alpha Emitters’, In: Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry: Instrumentation and Applications, R.A. Meyers (Ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, pp. 12848-12884.


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1999

  • Mitchell, P.I., León Vintró, L., McMahon, C.A., Organo, C. and Smith, K.J. (1999), ‘High resolution alpha spectrometry near the limit of detection: application to the assay of trace levels of radioactivity in environmental samples’, In: IAEA Consultant’s Meeting on Development of Alpha Particle Spectrometry Instrumentation, Methods and Applications, Vienna, 6-9 July 1999, 18 pp.

  • Seymour, E.M., Mitchell, P.I., León-Vintró, L. and Little, D.J. (1999), ‘A model for the transfer and recycling of Cs-137 within a deciduous forest ecosystem’, In: Proc. NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Contaminated Forests: Recent Developments in Risk Identification and Future Perspectives, Kiev, Ukraine, 24-28 June 1998, I. Linkov and W.R. Schell (Eds.), NATO ASI Series, pp.203-215.


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1998

  • Caulfield, S., O'Donnell, R.G. and Mitchell, P.I. (1998), ‘C-14 dating of a neolithic field system at Céide Fields, County Mayo, Ireland’ Radiocarbon, 40, 629-640.

  • Ledgerwood, F.K., Larmour, R.A., Mitchell, P.I., León Vintró, L. and Ryan, R.W. (1998), ‘Radiocaesium, plutonium and americium partitioning and leachability in size-fractionated, inter-tidal sediments from Strangford Lough’. In: Proc. International Symposium on Marine Pollution, Monaco, 5-9 October 1998, IAEA-SM-354, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, pp. 538-539.

  • Leonard, K.S., McCubbin, D., McMahon, C.A., Mitchell, P.I. and Bonfield, R. (1998), 'Cs-137/Sr-90 ratios in the Irish Sea and adjacent waters: a source term for the Arctic', Rad. Prot. Dosim. 75, 207-212.

  • McMahon, C.A., León Vintró, L., Mitchell, P.I. and Dahlgaard, H. (1998), ‘Physico-chemical speciation of plutonium in Arctic shelf waters at Thule, NW Greenland’. In: Proc. International Symposium on Marine Pollution, Monaco, 5-9 October 1998, IAEA-SM-354, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, pp. 242-243.

  • Mitchell, P.I. (1998), 'Radionuclide dispersal pathways: some general considerations and examples', In: Actinides and the Environment, P.A. Sterne, A. Gonis and A.A. Borovoi (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 41, pp. 319-366.

  • Mitchell, P.I., McMahon, C.A., León-Vintró, L. and Ryan, R.W. (1998), 'Plutonium in Arctic surface and sub-surface waters at the St Anna and Voronin Troughs', Rad. Prot. Dosim.75, 247-252.

  • Mitchell, P.I., Ryan, R.W., León Vintró, L., Ledgerwood, F.K. and Larmour, R.A. (1998), ‘Origin and behaviour of radiocaesium, plutonium and americium in the sediment-water-biota system of Strangford Lough’. In: , Proc. International Symposium on Marine Pollution, Monaco, 5-9 October 1998, IAEA-SM-354, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, pp. 361-362.

  • Mitchell, P.I., Holm. E., Dahlgaard, H., Nielsen, S.P., Boust, D., Leonard, K.S., Papucci, C., Salbu, B., Strand, P., Sánchez-Cabeza, J.A., Rissanen, K., Pollard, D., Gascó, C., Christensen, G., León Vintró, L., McMahon, C.A., Herrmann, J. and Nies, H. (1998), ‘Results and analysis of the ARMARA sea water intercomparison for Cs-137, Pu-238 and Pu-239,240’. In: Proc. International Symposium on Marine Pollution, Monaco, 5-9 October 1998, IAEA-SM-354, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, pp. 567-568.

  • Palanques, A., Sánchez-Cabeza, J.A., Masqué, P. and León Vintró, L. (1998), ‘Historical record of heavy metals in a highly contaminated Mediterranean deposit: the Besòs prodelta’, Marine Chemistry 61, 209-217.

  • Seymour, E.M., Mitchell, P.I. and León Vintró, L. (1998), ‘Monitoring, Modelling and Recycling of Radiocaesium in a Semi-Natural Oak Forest at Brackloon Wood, Westport, Co. Mayo’, In: Forest Ecosystem Research Group, Report No. 39, July 1998, 15 pp.


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1997

  • Smith, V., Ryan, R.P., Pollard, D., Mitchell, P.I. and Ryan, T.P. (1997), ‘Temporal and geographical distributions of Tc-99 in inshore waters around Ireland following increased discharges from Sellafield’, Radioprotection Colloques.


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1996

  • Boust, D., Mitchell, P.I., Garcia, K., Condren, O.M., León Vintró, L. and Leclerc, G. (1996), ‘A comparative study of the speciation and behaviour of plutonium in the marine environment of two reprocessing plants’, Radiochimica Acta 74, 203-210.

  • Condren, O.M., León-Vintró, L., Mitchell, P.I. and Ryan, T.P. (1996), ‘A new approach to quench correction when measuring Pu-241 in the presence of Pu-alpha by supported-disc liquid scintillation spectrometry’, Appl. Radiat. Isot. 47, 875-878.

  • Condren, O.M., Mitchell, P.I., León Vintró, L. and Downes, A.B. (1996), ‘Plutonium in western Irish Sea sediments: origin, bio-availability and ultimate fate’, In: Irish Marine Science 1995, B.F. Keegan and R. O’Connor (Eds.), Galway University Press, University College Galway (ISBN 1 9014 2101 5), pp. 567-583.

  • Cunningham, J.D., Ryan, T.P., Lyons, S., Smith, V., McGarry, A., Mitchell, P.I., León Vintró, L., Larmour, R.A. and Ledgerwood, F.K. (1996), ‘Artificial Radioactivity in Lough Foyle’, RPII-96/I Report, Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland, Dublin, 24 pp.

  • León Vintró, L., Mitchell, P.I., Condren, O.M., Moran, M., Vives i Batlle, J. and Sánchez-Cabeza, J.A. (1996), ‘Determination of the Pu-240/Pu-239 atom ratio in low activity environmental samples by alpha spectrometry and spectral deconvolution’, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 369, 597-602.

  • Mitchell, P.I., Kershaw, P.J. and León Vintró, L. (1996), ‘Radioactivity in the Irish Sea: Past Practices, Present Status and Future Perspectives’, In: Radionuclides in the Oceans: Inputs and Inventories, P. Guéguéniat, P. Germain and H. Métivier (Eds.), Institut de Protection et de Sûreté Nucleaire, Les Éditions de Physique (ISBN 2-86883-285-7), Chapter 7, pp. 155-175.

  • Ryan, T.P., McGarry, A., Lyons, S., Smith, V., Cunningham, J.D., Mitchell, P.I., León Vintró, L., Larmour, R.A. and Ledgerwood, F.K. (1996), ‘Plutonium, americium and radiocaesium in biota, sea water and sediment in Lough Foyle’, In: Irish Marine Science 1995, B.F. Keegan and R. O’Connor (Eds.), Galway University Press, University College Galway (ISBN 1 9014 2101 5), pp. 585-600.


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1995 and Earlier

  • Condren, O.M., León Vintró, L. and Mitchell, P.I. (1994), ‘Corrections in the determination of Pu-241 by supported-disc liquid scintillation counting’, In: Proc. Third International Summer School on Low-Level Measurements of Radioactivity in the Environment: Techniques and Applications, Huelva (Spain), September 20 - October 2, 1993, M. García-León and R. García-Tenorio (Eds.), p. 536.

  • Mitchell, P.I., Schell, W.R., McGarry, A., Ryan, T.P., Sánchez-Cabeza, J.A. and Vidal-Quadras, A. (1992), ‘Studies of the vertical distribution of Cs-134, Cs-137, Pu-238, Pu-239,240, Am-241 and Pb-210 in ombrogeneous mires at mid-latitudes’ , J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. (Articles) 156(2), 361-387.

  • Mitchell, P.I., Vives Batlle, J, Ryan, T.P., Schell, W.R., Sánchez-Cabeza, J.A. and Vidal-Quadras, A. (1991), ‘Studies on the speciation of plutonium and americium in the western Irish Sea’ , In: Radionuclides in the Study of Marine Processes, P.J. Kershaw and D.S. Woodhead (Eds.), Elsevier Applied Science, London and New York (ISBN 1-85166-707-5), pp. 37-51.

  • Mitchell, P.I., Vives Batlle, J., Ryan, T.P., McEnri, C., Long, S., O'Colmain, M., Cunningham, J.D., Caulfield, J.J., Larmour, R.A. and Ledgerwood, F.K. (1991), ‘Plutonium, americium and radiocaesium in sea water, sediments and coastal soils in Carlingford Lough’ , In: Radionuclides in the Study of Marine Processes, P.J. Kershaw and D.S. Woodhead (Eds.), Elsevier Applied Science, London and New York (ISBN 1-85166-707-5), pp. 265-275.

  • Mitchell, P.I., Sánchez-Cabeza, J.A., Ryan, T.P., McGarry, A.T. and Vidal-Quadras, A. (1990), ‘Preliminary estimates of cumulative caesium and plutonium deposition in the Irish terrestrial environment’, J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. (Articles)138(2), 241-256.

  • Mitchell, P.I., Vidal-Quadras, A., Font, J.L. and Oliva, M. (1988), ‘Gamma radioactivity in the Iberian marine environment closest to the NEA dumping site’ , J. Environ. Radioactivity 6(1), 77-89.

  • Mitchell, P.I., Vidal-Quadras, A., Sánchez-Cabeza, J.A. and Font, J.L. (1988), ‘Chernobyl fingerprints on north-east Atlantic surface waters’, In: Proc. First International Summer School on Low-Level Measurements and their Applications to Environmental Radioactivity, La Rábida (Spain), 28 September - 9 October 1987, M. García-León and G.Madurga (Eds.), World Scientific (ISBN 9971-50-461-8), pp.407-417.

  • Molero, J., Morán, A., Sánchez-Cabeza, J.A., Blanco, M., Mitchell, P.I. and Vidal-Quadras, A. (1993), ‘Efficiency of radiocaesium concentration from large volume natural water samples by scavenging with ammonium molybdophosphate’ , Radiochem. Acta 62, 159-162.

  • Ryan, T.P., Mitchell, P.I., Vives i Batlle, J., Sánchez-Cabeza, J.A. and McGarry, A. (1993), ‘Low-level Pu-241 analysis by supported-disc liquid scintillation counting’, In: Liquid Scintillation Spectrometry 1992, J.E. Noakes, F. Schönhofer and H.A. Pollack (Eds.), Publ. by Radiocarbon, pp. 75-82.

  • Sánchez-Cabeza, J.A., Pujol, L., Merino, J., León-Vintró, L., Molero, J., Vidal-Quadras, A., Schell, W.R. and Mitchell, P.I. (1993), ‘Optimisation and calibration of a low-background liquid scintillation counter for the simultaneous determination of alpha and beta emitters in aqueous samples’, In: Liquid Scintillation Spectrometry 1992, J.E. Noakes, F. Schönhofer and H.A. Pollack (Eds.), Publ. by Radiocarbon, pp. 75-82.

  • Sánchez-Cabeza, J.A., Pujol, L., Molero, J., Merino, J., León Vintró, L., Vidal-Quadras, A., Schell, W.R., Trilla, J. and Mitchell, P.I. (1993), ‘Estudio Preliminar Sobre el Transporte de Especies Químicas Solubles en el Río Ebro Utilizando el Tritio como Trazador’, In: Actas de la XVIII Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Nuclear Española, Puerto de Santa María, Jerez, October 1992, Sect. 2.05, pp. 1-10.


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List Of Laboratory Thesis

  • Condren, O.M., 1998. Plutonium, Americium and Radiocaesium in the Western Irish Sea: Origin, Bioavailability and Ultimate Fate. PhD Thesis, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 160 pp.

  • Downes, A.B., 1998. Speciation and Colloidal Association of Plutonium, Americium and Polonium in Marine Environments. PhD Thesis, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 139 pp.

  • Gallagher, D., 1999. Age Determination of Irish Groundwaters by Radiocarbon Dating. MSc Thesis, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 128 pp.

  • León Vintró, L., 1997. The Determination of Transuranium Isotopic Signatures in Environmental Materials and their Application to the Study of Marine Processes. PhD Thesis, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 184 pp.

  • Long, S., 1990. A Study of Plutonium in Children's Teeth in the United Kingdom. MSc Thesis, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 79 pp.

  • McGarry, A.T., 1991. Nuclear Fallout and Heavy Metal Deposition in Ombrogenous Peats in Ireland. PhD Thesis, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 165 pp.

  • McMahon, C.A., 2000. Fluxes, Dispersion and Radioecological Consequences of Anthropogenic Radionuclides in the Arctic Ocean. PhD Thesis, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 205 pp.

  • O'Donnell, R.G., 1997. The Establishment of a Radiocarbon Dating Facility at University College Dublin and it's Application to a Study of Palaeoecological Material from the North Mayo Blanket Bog and the Céide Fields. PhD Thesis, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 163 pp.

  • O'Donnell, R.G., 1993. A Study of Geographical Variations in the Concentrations of Plutonium and Radiostrontium in Human Teeth Throughout the Bristish Isles. MSc Thesis, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 128 pp.

  • Ryan, R.W., 1996. Technetium-99 in the Irish Marine Environment. MSc. Thesis, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 107 pp.

  • Ryan, T.P., 1991. Nuclear Fallout in the Irish Terrestrial Environment. PhD. Thesis, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 206 pp.

  • Sánchez-Cabeza, J.A., 1989. Plutonium in the Irish Environment. PhD Thesis, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 229 pp.

  • Smith, K, 2001. Natural radionuclides as tracers of scavenging and particulate transport processes in open ocean, coastal and estuarine environments. PhD Thesis, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 130 pp.

  • Smith, V., 1992. Radioactive Strontium in the Irish Terrestrial Environment. PhD Thesis, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 100 pp.

  • Vives i Batlle, J., 1993. Speciation and Bioavailabilty of Plutonium and Americium in the Irish Sea and other Marine Ecosystems. PhD Thesis, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 347 pp.


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