Managing the Plutonium Surplus: Applications and Technical Options Book

Preface. 1. Technical Interpretation; R.L. Garwin. 2. Explosive Properties of Various Types of Plutonium; R.L. Garwin. 3. Explosive Properties of Various Types of Plutonium; P. Jones. 4. World Inventories of Plutonium; W. Walker. 5. Problems of Russian Plutonium Utilization; E.I. Mikerin, E.G. Kudryavtsev. 6. World Inventories of Civil Plutonium; N. Oi, J. Finucane. 7. Direct Disposal Options for Separated Plutonium; J. Swahn. 8. Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium; M. Bunn. 9. The Use of Weapon and Reactor Plutonium in WWER and BN Type Reactors; V.M. Murogov, V.S. Kagramanian, N.S. Rabotnov. 10. Pu Utilisation: Recycling in PWRs and Fast Neutron Reactor Perspective; M. Salvatores. 11. Use of MOX (R-Pu and W-Pu) Fuel in VVER-1000; A.N. Novikov, V.V. Saprykin, A.A. Suslov, A.P. Lazarenko. 12. Disposition of Plutonium from Nuclear Weapons; E.R. Merz. 13. Recycling Warhead Plutonium in Light Water Reactors: the Civil Nuclear Industry can Help; P. Verbeek. 14. Energy over the Centuries: the IFR Options; C.E. Till. 15. Energy over the Centuries: the IFR Options; S. Takeda. 16. Energy from Nuclear Power in the Very Long Term: U-238 and TH-232; M. Grubb. 17. Weapons and Commercial Plutonium Ultimate Disposition Choices — Destroy 'Completely' or Store 'Forever'; C.D. Bowman. 18. Burning Actinides and Long-Lived Fission Products; A. Suzuki. 19. Plutonium: Secondary Raw Material or Raw Waste? E.V. Gai, N.S. Rabotnov. 20. Plutonium and its Chemical Compounds: the Problem of Nuclear Weapon Non-Proliferation; V.N. Ptitsyna, I.V. Chitaikin, I.L. Shibarshov. 21. Effects of Transmuting Long-Lived Radionuclines on Waste Disposal in a Geological Repository; Jor-Shan Choi, T.H. Pigford. 22. Environmental Impact and Constraints; R. Western. 23. Requirements for Plutonium Transportation, Storage and Accounting Systems; E.I. Mikerin. 24. Security/Safeguard Costs: General Points; R. Howsley. Appendix. Index.