"May 12, 2005 web-posted version with modifications to Appendix B)"-- Cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-217).

High-level waste and transmutation schemes -- Nuclear fuel cycle -- What is transmutation? -- Composition of high level waste -- Characteristics of the radionuclides considered for transmutation -- Transmutation as proposed solution -- Separation -- General description of separation processes -- Aqueous process -- Dry processes -- Overview of the programs by countries -- Health,safety and cost issues associated with separation -- Transmutation in critical reactors -- Types of fuels and targets -- Health and safety considerations relating to fuel fabrication of the transuranics -- Transmutation in LWRs -- Transmutation in fast reactors -- Transmutation in accelerators -- Accelerators --Separations -- Overview of spallation -- Types of fuels and coolants -- Sub-critical reactors -- Specific accelerator based research programs -- Implications -- The results of transmutation -- Reactor safety -- Cost -- Proliferation -- Environment, safety and health -- Nuclear fuel cycles -- Waste management -- Appendix A: Basics of nuclear physics -- Appendix B: Plutonium and uranium -- Appendix C: Basics of nuclear reactors -- Glossary.