Articles:

• The Needless Yucca Mountain Rush of 1998
  By: Arjun Makhijani
• The Yucca Mountain Standard: Proposals for Leniency
  IEER Guest Editorial By: Thomas H. Pigford
• Transmutation: Not a Repository Alternative
  By: Arjun Makhijani

Features:

• Centerfold for Technoweenies:
  • Radioactive Waste: The Regulatory Mess
    Compiled by Pat Ortmeyer
  • Table 1: Low-Level Waste Characteristics
  • Table 2: NRC Limits Defining Class A, b, and C Low-level Waste
  • Table 3: Regulatory Status of Waste Generated in the US Nuclear Fuel Cycle
  • Table 4: Waste Classification of Selected Radionuclides by Agency
  • The Curious Case of Curium-242, Curium-244, and Plutonium-241
  • The Road to Yucca Mountain: A Chronology

• IEER's Recommendations on Nuclear Waste Management and Disposal
  

• It Pays to Increase Your Jargon Power: By Dr. Egghead
• Atomic Puzzler
• Selected IEER Publications
• About IEER

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Comments to Outreach Coordinator, ieer@ieer.org
Takoma Park, Maryland, USA

October, 1997