Nuclear Materials : Issues and Concerns/edited by Digumarti Bhaskara Rao. New Delhi, Discovery, 2001, 2 Vols., 1001 p., $94 (set). ISBN 81-7141-611-X.
Contents: Vol. I:. Preface. I. Perspectives of nuclear research and development: 1. Nuclear disarmament and risks of proliferation/Paolo Cotta-Ramusino. 2. Principal viewpoint on nuclear energy development in Japan/Sadao Kijima. 3. Nuclear power of Russia/O. Favorsky, V. Kagramanian and L. Ryabev. 4. Nuclear energy/Ugo Farinelli. II. Prospects for disarmament and arms control: 5. The nuclear tests in South Asia : implications for the middle East/Shai Feldman. 6. On possible new NWFZs in Asia/Jan Prawitz. 7. Nuclear weapons’ free zones : a comparative political analysis/Mustafa Elwi Saif. 8. The debate over nuclear abolition/Steven E. Miller. 9. Arms control research in China academy of engineering physics/Xianjue Peng. 10. The twin problem of warheads and their delivery vehicles. Where to put the priority during future treaty negotiations ?/Gert Harigel. 11. Transparency regime for nuclear warheads elimination: problems and solutions/Anatoli S. Diakov. 12. Some thoughts on the prospect and technical challenge of nuclear disarmament/Jiashu Song. III. Illegal nuclear traffic : risks, safeguards and countermeasures: 13. The legacy of the cold war/M. Martellini. 14. Identifying the origin and intended use of seized samples of illicit trafficking of nuclear material/L. Kock. 15. International scientific collaboration in non-proliferation/A. Travelli. 16. In search of a missing link-nuclear terrorism and nuclear smuggling/F. Gere. 17. In field nuclear forensics : an overview of applicable instrumentation/S. Scott. 18. Polish prevention system against illicit trafficking of radioactive substances and nuclear materials/S. Sterlinski. 19. Report about prevention of illegal transportation of radioactive materials and wastes through border of the republic of Poland/T. Hadyoe. 20. Safeguarding nuclear weapon—usable materials in Russia/T. Chochran. 21. Illicit trafficking of nuclear material—a global recent review/S. Thorstensen. 22. Creating a comprehensive strategy to prevent nuclear smuggling/K. Luongo. 23. Nuclear smuggling in Europe : real dangers and enigmatic deceptions/A. Schaper. 24. Action to counter illegal trafficking in nuclear materials in the northern region/O. Reistad and M. Maerli. 25. Summary report of the International Technical Working Group (ITWG) on nuclear smuggling 10-11 June 1997/L. Kock. IV. Present research in the field of nuclear weapons, the future of national laboratories and lab-to-lab collaboration: 26. The stockpile stewardship programme/Paul S. Brown. 27. The persistence of the missile defence illusion/Joseph Cirincione. 28. U.S. nuclear weapons research and development under the comprehensive test ban treaty/Thomas B. Cochrane. 29. AIDA: the French-Russian aid programme for dismantling of Russian nuclear weapons/Herve Bernard. 30. Reducing the global threat from civilian plutonium through international development of new technology integrating unique Russian know-how/Curt Mileikowsky. 31. Disposition of arctic rad waste and decommissioning of propulsion nuclear power facilities/Antonino Lantieri. 32. Cooperative threat reduction programme/Sarah Lennon. 33. Research and development in nuclear material accounting, control and physical protection art the Kurchatov institute Russian research centre/Vladimir Shemelev. 34. Sharing the challengers of non-proliferation/Paul Herman. 35. How can we detect clandestine nuclear activities/Lothar Kock. 36. The U.S. Russian nuclear cities initiative : origins and status/Kenneth Luongo. 37. A model for the implementation of the nuclear cities initiative/Stephen V. Mladineo. 38. Collaboration and conversion programmes at RFNC-ITP/Vadim A. Simonenko. V. Disposal of radioactive waste/fissile materials and the environmental clean-up: 39. Current progress toward a high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca mountain, USA/Robert J. Budnitz. 40. Spent fuel and nuclear proliferation/Harold A. Feiveson. 41. Immobilisation of excess weapons plutonium : a rapidly achievable disposition strategy for Russia/Allison Macfarlane. 42. A French-European Kazakhstanese comprehensive programme of the ecobiological consequences of nuclear tests in Kazakhstan (1949-1989) : a five years follow-up/Christian Chenal and Jacques Mongnet. 43. Accelerator driven system for energy production and radioactive waste disposal/Giuseppe Gherardi. 44. Rethinking geologic disposal of high-level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel/Warner D. North. 45. On utilization of a nuclear warware in Russia : ecological and legal aspects/Yury Rogozhin. 46. Radio-ecological legacy of the past and its overcoming on the territory of Kazakhstan/Ummirzak M. Sultangazin. 47. Innovative Uranium-free fuels for weapons plutonium disposition in current LWRs/Fortunato Vettraino.
Vol. II: Preface. VI. Decommissioning and management of surplus nuclear equipments and materials: 48. Decommissioning strategy in the Russian federation/Armen Abagyan and V. Zimin. 49. Conversion problems at the enterprises of Georgia/Ramaz Khurodze. 50. A proposal for a new decommissioning trend/N. Cerullo and A. Ameglio. 51. Assessment of dismantling procedures for steam generators of VVER NPP’s-type with a view to minimise the generation of waste/G. Scrofani, R. Lanza and E. Tavella. 52. Environmental challenges resulting from nuclear waste generation in the former Soviet Union/D. Bradley. 53. Conceptual basic and status of nuclear power plant decommissioning effort in the Russian federation/V. Glazounov and L. Khamyanov. 54. Nuclear submarine decommissioning and related environmental problems/A. Sarkisov. 55. On the possibility to use submarine nuclear power units to generate peaceful energy/A. Blagovechtchenski and F. D’Auria. 56. Stability of transition to a world without nuclear weapons: technical problems of verification/V. Zhigalov. 57. The conversion of military science and technology : former Soviet Union case/M. Martellini. VII. Utilisation/disposal of the excess fissile weapon materials: scientific, technological and socio-economic aspects: 58. Potential contribution to the recycling of weapons grade plutonium in NPPs/D. Haas, C. Vandenberg and Y. Vanderbork. 59. Experience and activities in the field of Plutonium recycling in civilian nuclear power plants in the European union/Albert Decressin, Didier J. Gambier, Jean-Paul Lehmann and Dieter Ernst Nietzold. 60. Uranium-plutonium fuel for fast reactors/S.A. Antipov, V.A. Astafiev, A.E. Clouchenkov, K.I. Gustchin and T.S. Menshikova. 61. Performance and characteristics of a small-sized oxide-fueled fast reactor (PRISM) for the burning of excess plutonium/Carlo Artioli, Georgios Glinatsis and Franca Padoani. 62. Getting the Plutonium disposition job done : the concept of a joint-venture disposition enterprise financed by additional sales of highly enriched Uranium/Matthew Bunn. 63. Management of Russian military plutonium/C. Pierre Zaleski. 64. Non-fertile fuels for burning weapons plutonium in thermal fission reactors/C. Lombardi, A. Mazzola and F. Vettraino. 65. A clever use of ex-weapons material/Jean Pierre Rougeau. 66. Utilisation of already separated plutonium in Russia : consideration of short-and long-term options/Anatoli S. Diakov. 67. The minatom concept of surplus weapons plutonium utilisation in Russia/N.N. Yegorov, V.V. Bogdan and V.S. Kagramanian. 68. Get SMART: the case for a strategic materials reduction treaty, and its implementation/Neil J. Numark. 69. A proposed methodology for the analysis and selection of alternatives for the disposition of surplus plutonium/James S. Dyer, Thomas Edmundus, John C. Butler and Jianmin Jia. 70. Economic assumptions for evaluating reactor related options for managing plutonium/Geoffrey Rothwell. 71. Environmental safety and health risks of the different plutonium disposal alternatives/L.A. Bolshov. 72. The disposition of weapon grade plutonium : costs and tradeoffs/William J. Weida. 73. Utilisation of excess weapon plutonium : scientific and technological aspects of the conversion of military capacities for civilian use and sustainable development/Hans-Peter Winkelmann. 74. The proliferation risks of plutonium mines/Harold A. Feiveson. VIII. Indian and Pakistan nuclear tests: 75. Technology, strategy and politics : an inevitable past cold war cocktail ?/C. Uday Bhaskar. 76. Nuclearisation of South Asia/Ahmad Nishat. 77. Nuclear proliferation after the Indian and Pakistan tests/V. Gilinsky. 78. India’s nuclear planning, force structure, doctrine and arms control posture/Brahma Chellaney.
"Nuclear materials have civilian utilisation too along with military utilisation. The dual nature of the utilisation of nuclear materials has originated many problems but has also created several opportunities. The developed or developing nations should try to eliminate the danger of nuclear conflicts from human life and to develop nuclear technologies that work for the welfare of the mankind.
"This book covers the vital issues and concerns related to nuclear materials such as nuclear research and development, disarmament and arms control, illegal nuclear traffic and its associated aspects, disposal of radio-active waste/fissile materials, decommissioning and management of surplus nuclear equipments and materials, etc. A special attention was given to Indian and Pakistan nuclear tests.
"This book may have an impact on politicians and policy makers, scientists and technologists, economists and educationists and advocates and activists." (jacket)