A new book, Behind the Nuclear Curtain: Radioactive Waste Management in the Former Soviet Union, by Don J. Bradley and released by Battelle Press (ISBN 1-57477-022-5), tells the story of half a century of nuclear waste management activities and contamination incidents in the former Soviet Union (FSU).

It covers uranium mining, milling and enrichment, as well as reprocessing and disposal. In addition, separate chapters are devoted to naval waste management and contamination of oceans and seas, as well as the conditions in the FSU and the Baltic countries and the weapons test sites. Finally, separate chapters are devoted to Chernobyl and the three processing centers, Mayak, Tomsk, and Krasnoyarsk.

The appendices contain information on operating and decommissioned reactors, as well as on comparative world-wide releases of radioactivity into the environment, nuclear accidents, and nuclear weapons tests.

Contact: Battelle Press,
505 King Ave., Columbus, OH 43201-2693;
	1(800)451-3543,
	(614)-424-3819.