• Front Matter R1-R12

• Opening Remarks 1-2

• Handling Spent Nuclear Fuel—International Experience -- IAEA Activities in Nuclear Spent Fuel Management 3-11

• Analysis of U.S. Experience with Spent Fuel 12-19

• Problems of Spent Nuclear Fuel Management and Storage Site Selection 20-29

• Feasibility of Transmutation of Radioactive Elements 30-49

• The High Level Waste Disposal Technology Development Program in Korea 50-58

• The Use of Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors for Effectively Reprocessing Plutonium and Minor Actinides 59-72

• 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 73-88

• The Private Fuel Limited Liability Company National Spent Fuel Site 89-95

• Experience of Japan 96-108

• The Current Status of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Korea 109-117

• Safe Transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High Level Waste: International Experience 118-127

• Ensuring Nuclear and Radiation Safety During the Transport of Radioactive Materials in Russia 128-142

• Problems in Establishing an International Repository for Spent Nuclear Fuel in Russia -- Creating an Infrastructure for Managing of Spent Nuclear Fuel 143-151

• Current Status of Government Regulation of Activities Associated with the Import of Spent Nuclear Fuel into the Russian Federation Return to the Russian Federation of Irradiated Fuel Assemblies from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Republic of Uzbekistan 152-158

• Return to the Russian Federation of Irradiated Fuel Assemblies from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Republic of Uzbekistan 159-162

• Investment and International Aspects of the Problem of Spent Nuclear Fuel Management 163-165

• Creation of an Underground Repository for Spent Nuclear Fuel near the City of Zheleznogorsk (Eastern Siberia) 166-176

• Conditions for the Creation of an International Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository near the Priargunsk Mining-Chemical Production Association (City of Krasnokamensk, Chita Oblast) 177-186

• 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 187-198

• Chemical Treatment of High Level Waste for Utilization 199-207

• Immobilization of High Level Waste: Analysis of Appropriate Synthetic Waste Forms 208-224

• The Management of High-Level Radioactive Wastes from the Mayak Production Association and Plans for the Creation of an Underground Laboratory 225-239

• Creation of Underground Laboratories at the Mining-Chemical Complex and at Mayak to Study the Suitability of Sites for Underground Isolation of Radioactive Wastes 240-247

• Concluding Observations--Milton Levenson 248-250

• Appendix A: Workshop Agenda 251-256

• Appendix B: Environmental Effects of Radiation in the Russian Federation 257-259

• Appendix C: Geochemistry of Actinides During the Long-Term Storage and Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel 260-290

" Appendix A: Workshop Agenda ." An International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility -- Exploring a Russian Site as a Prototype: Proceedings of an International Workshop . Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2005 .

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