FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Opening Remarks -- HANDLING SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL- INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE -- IAEA Activities in Nuclear Spent Fuel Management--Fyodor F. Sokolov, Aleksey E. Lebedev, and Kosaku Fukuda* -- Analysis of U.S. Experience with Spent Fuel--John F. Ahearne -- Problems of Spent Nuclear Fuel Management and Storage Site Selection--M. I. Solonin -- Feasibility of Transmutation of Radioactive Elements--Sekazi K. Mtingwa -- The High-Level Waste Disposal Technology Development Program in Korea--Jongwon Choi -- The Use of Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors for Effectively Reprocessing Plutonium and Minor Actinides--V. I. Matveev, V. A. Yeliseev, and Ye. V. Poplavskaya -- SITE SELECTION FOR SPENT FUEL STORAGE AND DISPOSAL OF HIGH-LEVEL WASTE -- Site Selection for Spent Fuel Storage and Disposal of High-Level Waste: Experience of European Countries--Charles McCombie -- The Private Fuel Limited Liability Company National Spent Fuel Site--John D. Parkyn -- Experience of Japan--Koji Nagano -- The Current Status of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Korea--Hyun-Soo Park and Jongwon Choi -- Safe Transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste: International Experience--Michael E. Wangler and Ronald B. Pope -- Ensuring Nuclear and Radiation Safety During the Transport of Radioactive Materials in Russia--Aleksandr M. Agapov -- PROBLEMS IN ESTABLISHING AN INTERNATIONAL STORAGE FACILITY FOR SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL IN RUSSIA -- Creating an Infrastructure for Managing Spent Nuclear Fuel--K. G. Kudinov -- Current Status of Government Regulation of Activities Associated with the Import of Spent Nuclear Fuel into the Russian Federation--A. M. Dmitriev -- Return to the Russian Federation of Irradiated Fuel Assemblies from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Republic of Uzbekistan--Aleksey E. Lebedev.

Investment and International Aspects of the Problem of Spent Nuclear Fuel Management--Vitaly P. Keondjian and Michael A. Zhdanov -- Creation of an Underground Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel near the City of Zheleznogorsk (Eastern Siberia)--Ye. B. Anderson, Ye. F. Lyubtseva, V. G. Savonenkov, S. I. Shabalev, and N. L. Alekseev -- Conditions for the Creation of an International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility near the Priargunsk Mining- Chemical Production Association (City of Krasnokamensk, Chita Oblast)--Vasily I. Velichkin, V. A. Petrov, V. F. Golovin, and V. A. Ovseichuk -- UTILIZATION OF HIGH-LEVEL WASTE -- Types of High-Level Radioactive Wastes Formed as a Result of Dry Methods of Spent Fuel Regeneration and Technologies for Their Management--Valentin B. Ivanov -- Chemical Treatment of High-Level Waste for Utilization--Boris F. Myasoedov -- Immobilization of High-Level Waste: Analysis of Appropriate Synthetic Waste Forms--S. V. Yudintsev -- Management of High-Level Radioactive Wastes from the Mayak Production Association and Plans for the Creation of an Underground Laboratory--Yu. V. Glagolenko -- Creation of Underground Laboratories at the Mining-Chemical Complex and at Mayak to Study the Suitability of Sites for Underground Isolation of Radioactive Wastes--Tatyana A. Gupalo -- Concluding Observations--Milton Levenson -- APPENDIXES -- A Workshop Agenda -- B Environmental Effects of Radiation in the Russian Federation--V. V. Kutsenko -- C Geochemistry of Actinides During the Long-Term Storage and Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel--Nikolay P. Laverov, Vasily I. Velichkin, B. I. Omelyanenko, and S. V. Yudintsev.