1999 Aleksandr Nikitin, in recognition of his outstanding efforts to protect the environment and human health by documenting
the dangerous nuclear waste management practices in post-Soviet Russia.
In particular, a relatively new form of
nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of
nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the
management of
dangerous, long - lived radioactive
waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.