Product Description: Until the late 1970s, most commercial power plant operators outside the United States adopted a spent fuel management policy of immediate reprocessing and recycling of recovered products. In response to rising reprocessing prices, decreasing values of re­ covered products, concerns over proliferation risks, and a belief in the favorable eco­ nomics of direct disposal, many utilities have since opted to store spent fuel on an in­ terim basis pending the availability of direct disposal facilities or a change in the eco­ nomic and/or political climate for reprocessing and recycling uranium and plutonium...read more

Product Description: Risk assessment has come to assume acute importance in the former Soviet Union since money is so scarce, yet the needs for cleanup are so huge. Other factors contribute to this situation, too: New leaders are still emerging, and governmental structures are still evolving...read more

Now even the youngest fans can share in the magic with this exciting full-color tour through the wardrobe and back again that includes 64 pages of full-color illustrations plus a chapter on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe movie by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media with full-color movie photographs.