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Communication A New Magnesium Phosphate Glasses for High Level Nuclear Waste Immobilization Toshinori Okura Okura, Toshinori Hideki Monma Monma, Hideki 1
Communication B Electrochemical Solidification of Radwastes in Single-Crystalline Titanates Hideki Abe Abe, Hideki Akira Satoh Satoh, Akira Kenji Nishida Nishida, Kenji Hideaki Kitazawa Kitazawa, Hideaki 17
Communication C A Heated Electrode Test System for Studying Corrosion Behavior of Alloy Yugo Ashida Ashida, Yugo L. Glen McMillion McMillion, L. Glen Manoranjan Misra Misra, Manoranjan 22
Communication D Leaving Messages about Our Radioactive Waste for Future Generations Alan Marshall Marshall, Alan 37
Research and Review Articles
Ch. 1 Attitudes towards Nuclear Waste and Siting Policy: Experts and the Public Lennart Sjoberg Sjoberg, Lennart Britt-Marie Drottz-Sjoberg Drottz-Sjoberg, Britt-Marie 47
Ch. 2 Millimeter-Wave Monitoring for Nuclear Waste Vitrification P. P. Woskov Woskov, P. P. S. K. Sundaram Sundaram, S. K. W. E. Daniel Daniel, W. E. 75
Ch. 3 On Statistically Optimal Algorithms of Regulation of a Pulsed Reactor Alexander K. Popov Popov, Alexander K. Alexey A. Marachev Marachev, Alexey A. 107
Ch. 4 Application of Gas-Cooled Reactor Technology to Design of Accelerator Driven Systems for Nuclear Waste Transmutation Alberto Abanades Abanades, Alberto 143
Ch. 5 Argillite/Concrete and Argillite/Steel Interactions: Experience Gained from the Tournemire Underground Research Laboratory I. Devol-Brown Devol-Brown, I. E. Tinseau Tinseau, E. F. Marsal Marsal, F. D. Pellegrini Pellegrini, D. A. Mifsud Mifsud, A. S. Lemius Lemius, S. D. Stammose Stammose, D. J. Cabrera Cabrera, J. 167
Ch. 6 NuclearTransmutation through Laser Compton Scattering Gamma-Ray Dazhi Li Li, Dazhi Kazuo Imasaki Imasaki, Kazuo Shuji Miyamoto Miyamoto, Shuji Sho Amano Amano, Sho Takayasu Mochizuki Mochizuki, Takayasu 189
Ch. 7 Exploring the Earth's Crust and Mantle Using Self-Descending, Radiation-Heated, Probes and Acoustic Emission Monitoring Michael I. Ojovan Ojovan, Michael I. Fergus G. F. Gibb Gibb, Fergus G. F. 207
Review Valentina L. Stolyarova Stolyarova, Valentina L.
Ch. 8 Nuclear Waste Containment by Sol Gel Process Thierry Woignier Woignier, Thierry Jerome Reynes Reynes, Jerome Jean Phalippou Phalippou, Jean 221
Ch. 9 Shuttling from Applied to Fundamental Research: Developing Calixbiscrowns for Nuclear Waste Treatment and Elaboration of Nano-Objects Jacques Vicens Vicens, Jacques 239
Index 249
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Paul Shinoda
reviewed Nuclear Waste Research: Siting, Technology and Treatment on March 20, 2011 Nuclear Waste Research: Siting, Technology and Treatment
I think I've come a little bit closer to defining what it is I love about great writing -- I love to learn a little something, I love to lose a breath over an ingenious construction of words, I love an author who welcomes me into a room peopled with ideas that surprise me. I love John D'Agata. Like, almost physically. Like, watch out, John, you are right now living in my town, and I could find you. Alright, I tried to be cute and look you up in the phone book, but you're not listed, but I found the listing for your office in EPB, and I could conceivably drive by every day on my way to work if I didn't mind that two mile detour through collegetown traffic. But all that would be silly, because what I really love is his fervent attitude about the essay. D'Agata's essay refuses to follow form; his conclusion refuses to recap his intro, his outline is beside the point; his facts are researched and justified, but their role is more character than bullet point. His pseudo-facts play the straight man, honest and accurate and ridiculous. Plus, on top of this incredible, irreverent essay construction, what he's saying is just as enchanting as how he's saying it.
You might say D'Agata got lucky, finding himself in Vegas with a national headline concerning nuclear waste on his left and a suicide on his right, but really, all he did was pay attention. And then he asked a lot of questions. And only now and then did they get answered, but more often than not, the not-answer was answer enough. And the ridiculous things (like creating a warning sign that will survive and communicate for 10,000 years) made him chuckle through the knuckleheads he interviewed, and the sad things (a 16-year-old suicide in the city boasting the highest number of suicides per capita in the country) made him weep poetry. And when was the last time you read an essay that took you to such emotional extremes? Essays aren't supposed to do that, they're supposed to be little theses with facts and logical argument -- no crying.
I'm off to read D'Agata's other book of essays, Halls of Fame: Essays, where it seems to me he's doing some Anthony Bourdain-style visits to various halls of kitsch. I'm looking forward to his sharing with me his curiosity, his capacity for wonder, that informs his writing and makes it feel like I'm not learning anything, just staring at his open palms with my mouth agape, wondering what's next.
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