Fundamental chemistry of actinides has been reviewed a few times during the past decade. The benchmark book in recent years is The Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements, a five-volume work edited by Norman M. Edelstein, Jean Fuger and Lester R. Morss, and published by Springer, 2006. The last, sixth volume was released in 2010. It is a contem­porary and definitive compilation of chemical properties of all of the actinide elements, especially of the technologically important elements uranium and plutonium, as well as the transactinide elements. In addition to the comprehensive treatment of the chemical properties of each element, this book has specialized and definitive chapters on electronic theory, optical and laser fluorescence spectroscopy, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, organoactinide chemistry, thermodynamics, magnetic properties, the metals, coordination chemistry, separations, and trace analysis. Each chapter was written by a team of authors who are recognized experts in their specialty. All chapters represent the current state of research in the chemistry of these elements and related fields. It expounds on topics in actinide science that are undergoing rapid scientific developments and that are germane to the safe development of nuclear energy in the 21st century, from nuclear fuels to the environmental science and management of waste, and this text refers to this book several times, especially to Chapters 15, 23 and 24 (properties, solution chemistry and separations, respectively).

Organometallic and Coordination Chemistry of the Actinides (Springer, 2008), edited by T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, pages presents critical reviews of the present position and future trends in modern chemical research con­cerned with chemical structure and bonding. It contains short and concise reports, each written by the world’s renowned experts.

The book Recent Advances in Actinide Science edited by R. Alvarez, N. D. Bryan, and I. May (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2006), in six sections (Analysis, the Environment and Biotransformations; Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry; Heavy Elements; Nuclear Fuels, Materials and Waste Forms; Separation and Solution Chemistry; and Spectroscopy and Magnetism) covers more than 200 presentations from leading scientists, presented at the international conference “Actinides 2005” Conference, held at the University of Manchester, UK in July 2005.

Structural Chemistry of Inorganic Actinide Compounds (Elsevier, 2007, edited by Krivorichev, S. V., Burns, P. C. Tananaev, I. G.), is a collection of 13 reviews on structural and coordination chemistry of actinide compounds. Within the last decade, these compounds have attracted considerable atten­tion because of their importance for radioactive waste management, cataly­sis, ion-exchange and absorption applications, etc. Synthetic and natural actinide compounds are also of great environmental concern as they form as a result of alteration of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste under Earth surface conditions, during burn-up of nuclear fuel in reactors, repre­sent oxidation products of uranium mines and mine tailings, etc. The actinide compounds are also of considerable interest to material scientists due to the unique electronic properties of actinides that give rise to interesting physical properties controlled by the structural architecture of respective compounds.

Advances in Plutonium Chemistry, 1967-2000 (American Nuclear Society, 2002), is a multi-authored review of advances in plutonium chemistry from 1967 to 2000, documenting the advances in understanding of plutonium chemistry over the more than thirty years since the publication of J. M. Cleveland’s The Chemistry of Plutonium. The book is written by interna­tionally recognized experts in plutonium science, it addresses both the theo­retical interpretations and fundamental properties of plutonium. The detailed technical content is framed together by an impressive and thought­ful summary by the senior editor, D. Hoffman.

The ACS Symposium Series contains high-quality, peer-reviewed books developed from the ACS technical divisions’ symposia. Each volume is a collection of chapters carefully edited by an internationally recognized leader, and chapters are written by experts in the field as invited contribu­tions, usually presented to their peers at the symposia of the ACS annual meetings. The series covers a broad range of chemistry topics. One of the recent volumes, Separations for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle in the 21st Century (Ed. Gregg J. Lumetta, Kenneth L. Nash, Sue B. Clark, and Judah I. Friese), released in 2006 as 933rd volume, is the proceedings from a symposium titled “Separations for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle” in the 21st century which was held in March 2004 and focused on assessing the current state-of-the art in nuclear separations science and technology, and on identifying R&D directions required to enable nuclear separations to meet 21st century demands for waste minimization, environment protection, safety, and security. It was the fifth symposium series devoted to nuclear and radiochemistry. It covers the past 20 years between the previous proceedings, Radioanalytical Methods in Interdisciplinary Research: Fundamentals in Cutting-Edge Applications, volume 868 (released in 2003 and edited by C. A. Laue and K. L. Nash) and Plutonium Chemistry (Vol. 216; 1983; edited by W. T. Carnall and G. R. Choppin), Transplutonium Elements — Production and Recovery (Vol. 161; 1981; edited by J. D. Navratil and W. W. Schulz) and Actinide Separations (vol. 117, 1980, edited by J. D. Navratil and W. W. Schulz).