ABSTRACT
Radiation Ecology or Radioecology is a term that came into common usage in 1956 to denote that area of the broad field of ecology concerned with the assessment of radioactivity in the environment. More specifically, radiation ecology has come to be recognized as that area of ecology concerned with radioactive substances, radiation and the environment. The development and subsequent expansion of nuclear energy for military and peaceful purposes has been accompanied by environmental problems, some of which are typical of other facets of industrialization and some unique to atomic energy. The unique problems primarily concern the fate and ecological effects of radionuclides released into the environment.
