Chemical Separation Technologies and Related Methods of Nuclear Waste Management

I. Nuclear Separation Methods and Technologies: 1944 – 1998.- Overview of Chemical Separation Methods and Technologies.- Review of Historical Development and Application of Separation Technologies in Russia.- Reprocessing of Nuclear Fuel: Overview/Critique of the Worldwide Experience and Engineering/Technology Challenges for Separations.- II. Nuclear Separation Methods and Technologies: 1999 - ?.- Technology Needs for Actinide and Technetium Separations Based on Solvent Extraction, Ion Exchange and Other Processes.- Review of Non-Aqueous Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing and Separation Methods. (View on World Experience from Dimitrovgrad).- Review of Possible Technologies for Actinide Separation Using Other Extractants than TBP.- Studies of the Chemistry of Transactinides by Fast Separation Techniques.- III. Technology Needs for Nuclear Waste Processing.- New Extraction Technologies for Management of Radioactive Wastes.- Application of New Inorganic-Organic Composite Absorbers with Polyacrylonitrile Binding Matrix for Separation of Radionuclides from Liquid Radioactive Wastes.- R&D Needs of Chemical Separation Technologies for Nuclear Wastes from the Perspective of Federal Governmental Programs of Russia.- Nuclear Waste Management: A Bioremediation Approach.- IV. Nuclear Wastes and Environment.- Up-to-date Radioecological Situation around the “Mayak” Nuclear Facility.- The Environmental Impacts of Uranium Mining and Milling and the Methods of their Reduction.- Role of Humics in Actinide Behavior in Ecosystems.- V. Risk Assessment and Safety Issues.- Risk Assessment for Chemicals & Radionuclides: Some Characteristics, Similarities and Differences.- The View from Russia of the Soviet-Designed Reactor Safety Program of the U.S. Department of Energy.- List of Abbreviations.