Section One: Global Strategies and Concepts -- Energy strategies and nuclear power -- The nuclear energy continuum and its spectrum of choices -- On the internal logic of energy islands -- Section Two: Fission and Fission Breeding -- Self-sustaining systems of reactors -- Sustainable minireactors: a framework for decentralized nuclear energy systems -- Small reactors in a neutron-abundant world -- On the role and technological readiness of fast breeders and fusion-fission hybrids in the world nuclear future -- Section Three: Fusion and Dense Plasma Neutron Sources -- The tokamak as a candidate for a D-T fusion reactor -- The fusion breeder: its potential role and prospects -- Prospects of hydrogen production through fusion -- Modern electrolytic procedures for the production of hydrogen by splitting water -- The dense plasma focus as a source of neutrons -- Possible applications of a hybrid thermonuclear energy source based on a DPF device in modern energy complexes -- Section Four: Accelerator Breeding -- Accelerator spallation reactors for breeding fissile fuel and transmuting fission products -- Accelerator breeder applications -- The FRG project for a high-power spallation neutron source for fundamental research -- On the need for accelerator breeders and fission converter reactors -- Section Five: Handling the Waste -- Future processing of spent reactor fuels -- A proposed concept for actinide-waste transmutation -- Transmutation of radioactive wastes: an assessment -- Section Six: Reflections and Summary -- Quick is beautiful -- Panel discussion -- Author index.