edited by Yu Ts Oganessian (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia), J Kliman (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia), & Š Gmuca (Slovak Academy of Science, Slovakia)

This book presents the latest results of experimental and theoretical studies of fission and fusion-fission dynamics from low to intermediate energies. It covers new results on the synthesis of superheavy elements and the decay of complex nuclear systems, binary and ternary fission, fragmentation, the decay of hot nuclei, and the nuclear structure of neutron-rich nuclei. It also discusses some questions concerning the incineration and transmutation of actinides from nuclear waste. Graduate students and researchers can use this book to review recent progress and explore future directions in the development of radioactive ion beam facilities.

• Scientific Prospects and Further Development of the Accelerator Complex of FLNR. Project “DRIBs” (Yu Ts Oganessian)
• Developments in Fission, Fusion, Cluster Radioactivity and the Extension of the Periodic System of Elements (W Greiner)
• Experiments on the Synthesis of New Superheavy Elements (F P Heβberger)
• Experiments on Synthesis of Superheavy Elements with Z=110, 112 via Reactions ²³²Th, ²³⁸U+⁴⁸Ca (A Yeremin et al.)
• Search for the Multimodal Fission of ²⁵⁶No, ²⁷⁰Sg and ²⁷¹Hs in Reactions of Subbarrier Fusion (M G Itkis et al.)
• Cold Spontaneous Fission Processes of ²⁵²Cf and the Structure of Neutron Rich Ba and La Nuclei (J H Hamilton et al.)
• Angular Correlations in Ternary Fission Induced by Polarized Neutrons (F Gönenwein et al.)
• The Munich Accelerator for Fission Fragments (MAFF) at the New Reactor FRM II (T von Egidy et al.)
• Dynamic Evolution in the Disassembly of Hot Nuclei (J B Natowitz et al.)
• and other papers