Content: PREFACE; OVERVIEW; 1. Nuclear Waste Remediation: Accomplishments of the Environmental Management Science Program; CHARACTERIZATION, MONITORING, AND ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; 2. Fluorophores as Chemosensors Based on Calix[4]arenes and Three Different Fluorescence Reporters; 3. Spectroscopic Properties and Redox Chemistry of Uranium in Borosilicate Glass; 4. Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) of Uranyl-Humic Complexes Using a Silver-Doped Sol-Gel Substrate; 5. Analysis of Electrochemical Impedance Data for Iron in Borate Buffer Solutions; 6. Investigating Ultrasonic Diffraction Grating Spectroscopy and Reflection Techniques for Characterizing Slurry Properties; 7. Novel Chemical Detection Strategies for TCE and PCE; SEPARATIONS CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY; 8. Separation of Fission-Products Based on Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids; 9. Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Radionuclides - A Green Technology for Nuclear Waste Management; 10 Fundamental Chemistry of the Universal Extraction (UNEX) Process for the Simultaneous Separation of Major Radionuclides (Cesium, Strontium, Actinides, and Lanthanides) from Radioactive Wastes; 11. Dynamics of Switch-Binding by a Linear Ligand that Transforms to a Macrocycle upon Chelation to a Metal Ion: Synthesis, Kinetics, and Equilibria; 12. Organofunctional Sol-Gel Materials for Toxic Metal Separation; FACILITY INSPECTION, DECONTAMINATION, AND DECOMMISSIONING; MATERIALS SCIENCE; 13. Investigation of Nanoparticle Formation during Surface Decontamination and Characterization by Pulsed Laser; 14. Recent Progress in the Development of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide-Soluble Metal Ion Extractants; 15. Investigation of SOMS and Their Related Perovskites; MODELING AND WASTE TREATMENT CHEMISTRIES; 16. Solubility of TcO2*xH2O(am) in the Presence of Gluconate in Aqueous Solution; 17. Behavior of Technetium in Alkaline Solution: Identification of Non-Pertechnetate Species in High-Level Nuclear Waste Tanks at the Hanford Reservation; 18. Effects of Sodium Hydroxide and Sodium Aluminate on the Precipitation of Aluminum Containing Species in Tank Wastes; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX