Believing that involvement by ordinary lay citizens remains critical to addressing the challenges of nuclear waste cleanup in the United States, Power (a recent senior policy advisor in the Nuclear Waste Program of the Washington State Department of Ecology) introduces a general audience to the technical, legal, and political issues concerning the production and mitigation of nuclear waste hazards in the US. He also describes examples in which ordinary citizens have played a role in forcing government to address nuclear waste problems. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)