Nuclear Energy and the Environment

Content: CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. THE NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE: PRODUCING ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE NUCLEAR POWER ; BRUCE J. MINCHER ; OVERVIEW ; 2. SEPARATIONS RESEARCH FOR ADVANCED NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLES ; T. A. TODD ; 3. CHALLENGES FOR ACTINIDE SEPARATIONS IN ADVANCED NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLES ; K. L. NASH AND J. C. BRALEY ; 4. ROADMAPPING NEW CLEANUP TECHNOLOGIES IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY>'S OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ; JOHN R. WILEY AND EDWIN PRZYBYLOWICZ ; SEPARATIONS CHEMISTRY ; 5. GREEN SEPARATION TECHNIQUES FOR NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT ; CHIEN M. WAI ; 6. DEVELOPMENT OF A UNIQUE PROCESS FOR RECOVERY OF URANIUM FROM INCINERATOR ASH ; SYDNEY S. KOEGLER ; 7. SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION OF MIXED WASTES: PAH, PCB, URANIUM AND LANTHANUM IN SOLID MATRICES ; JOANNA S. WANG, WENYEN CHANG, HUAKWANG YAK, AND KONGHWA CHIU ; 8. ACTINIDE(III) RECOVERY FROM HIGH ACTIVE WASTE SOLUTIONS USING INNOVATIVE PARTITIONING PROCESSES ; GIUSEPPE MODOLO ; 9. COMBINING RESIN ; N. SURUGAYA, Y. SANO, M. YAMAMOTO, A.