An international spent nuclear fuel storage facility : exploring a Russian site as a prototype : proceedings of an international workshop / Glenn E. Schweitzer and A. Chelsea Sharber, editors ; Committee on the Scientific Aspects of an International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility in Russia, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia, Development, Security, and Cooperation, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council to the National Academies ; in cooperation with Russian Academy of Sciences.

"Interacademy workshop of international experts on the specific issues relevant to the establishment and operation of a storage facility was held in Moscow on May 14-15, 2003"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references.

HANDLING SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL- INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE -- IAEA Activities in Nuclear Spent Fuel Management--Fyodor F. Sokolov, Aleksey E. Lebedev, and Kosaku Fukuda* -- Analysis of U.S. Experience with Spent Fuel--John F. Ahearne -- Problems of Spent Nuclear Fuel Management and Storage Site Selection--M. I. Solonin -- Feasibility of Transmutation of Radioactive Elements--Sekazi K. Mtingwa -- The High-Level Waste Disposal Technology Development Program in Korea--Jongwon Choi -- The Use of Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors for Effectively Reprocessing Plutonium and Minor Actinides--V. I. Matveev, V. A. Yeliseev, and Ye. V. Poplavskaya -- 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--Charles McCombie -- The Private Fuel Limited Liability Company National Spent Fuel Site--John D. Parkyn -- Experience of Japan--Koji Nagano -- The Current Status of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Korea--Hyun-Soo Park and Jongwon Choi -- Safe Transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste: International Experience--Michael E. Wangler and Ronald B. Pope -- Ensuring Nuclear and Radiation Safety During the Transport of Radioactive Materials in Russia--Aleksandr M. Agapov -- PROBLEMS IN ESTABLISHING AN INTERNATIONAL STORAGE FACILITY FOR SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL IN RUSSIA -- Creating an Infrastructure for Managing Spent Nuclear Fuel--K. G. Kudinov -- Current Status of Government Regulation of Activities Associated with the Import of Spent Nuclear Fuel into the Russian Federation--A. M. Dmitriev -- Return to the Russian Federation of Irradiated Fuel Assemblies from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Republic of Uzbekistan--Aleksey E. Lebedev -- Investment and International Aspects of the Problem of Spent Nuclear Fuel Management--Vitaly P. Keondjian and Michael A. Zhdanov -- Creation of an Underground Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel near the City of Zheleznogorsk (Eastern Siberia)--Ye. B. Anderson, Ye. F. Lyubtseva, V. G. Savonenkov, S. I. Shabalev, and N. L. Alekseev -- Conditions for the Creation of an International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility near the Priargunsk Mining- Chemical Production Association (City of Krasnokamensk, Chita Oblast)--Vasily I. Velichkin, V. A. Petrov, V. F. Golovin, and V. A. Ovseichuk -- 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--Valentin B. Ivanov -- Chemical Treatment of High-Level Waste for Utilization--Boris F. Myasoedov -- Immobilization of High-Level Waste: Analysis of Appropriate Synthetic Waste Forms--S. V. Yudintsev -- Management of High-Level Radioactive Wastes from the Mayak Production Association and Plans for the Creation of an Underground Laboratory--Yu. V. Glagolenko -- Creation of Underground Laboratories at the Mining-Chemical Complex and at Mayak to Study the Suitability of Sites for Underground Isolation of Radioactive Wastes--Tatyana A. Gupalo -- Concluding Observations--Milton Levenson -- APPENDIXES -- A Workshop Agenda -- B Environmental Effects -- Geochemistry.