Migration 2007
Background
The MIGRATION conferences provide an international forum for the timely exchange of scientific information on chemical processes controlling the migration behaviour of actinides and fission products in natural systems. Experimental investigations and predictive modelling of these processes are the main topics of the conferences. The information generated from the MIGRATION conferences is the basis for the fundamental understanding of the migration behaviour of long-lived radionuclides in the geosphere, which is essential for the long-term performance assessment of nuclear waste disposal.
The first MIGRATION conference was held in 1987 in Munich, Germany. It was followed by MIGRATION ’89 in Monterey, California, USA; MIGRATION ’91 in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain; MIGRATION ’93 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA; MIGRATION ’95 in Saint-Malo, France; MIGRATION ’97 in Sendai, Japan, MIGRATION ’99 at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA, MIGRATION ’01 in Bregenz, Austria, MIGRATION ’03 in Gyeongju, Korea, and MIGRATION ’05 in Avignon, France.
After 20 years MIGRATION ’07 will return back to the grassroots: The eleventh MIGRATION conference will take place where everything started: Munich, Germany.
Conference papers that were peer-reviewed and accepted for publication have been appeared in special issues of Radiochimica Acta 44/45 (1988), 52/53 (1991), 58/59 (1992), 66/67 (1994), 74 (1996), 82 (1998), 88 (no. 9/10) (2000), 90 (2002), 92 (2004) and in the Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 13 (no. 1/4) (1993), 21 (no.1/4) (1996), 26 (no.1/4) (1997), 35 (no. 1/3) (1998), 47 (no2/4) (2001), 61 (no1/4) (2003). Proceedings of the last conference have appeared in the journals Radiochimica Acta 94 (no. 9-11) (2006) and Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 31 (no. 10-14) (2006).
