(i) (fundamental) nuclear and radiochemistry data for codification and standardization,

(ii) radiochemical analysis of environmental pollutants,

(iii) investigation of natural and artificial radionuclides,

(iv) amelioration technologies associated with energy production,

(v) application of radioactivity in life sciences,

(vi) radioanalytical methods and nuclear techniques for determination and speciation of trace elements in various matrices,

(vii) nuclear chronology,

(viii) expansion of effective national representation.

Justification of the Commission V.7 activity  for the coming
period (1998-2001)

The Commission on Radiochemistry and Nuclear Techniques, being the sole
IUPAC unit dealing with problems of radioactivity and nuclear techniques in
the widest sense, will concentrate its main efforts over the coming several
years on the directions which are extremely important for the society. Among
them one can mention the preparation of publicly available (Internet)
nuclear data bases having wide aspects of application (spontaneous fission
half-hives of ground state nuclides, temperature dependence of the Westcott
g-factor, resonance integrals for activation analysis), systematisation of
knowledge on behaviour of radioactivity in nature (speciation, migration),
participation in Radsite project by SCOPE dealing with problems of
radioactive wastes storage and remediation of the contaminated territories,
investigation of radionuclides in food and living organisms (evaluation of
the applicable analytical methods), fundamental chemistry of transactinides
elements, estimation of the progress in development of environmentally safe
low activation structural materials for fusion technology.