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NUCLEAR REACTOR FUEL ELEMENTS, edited by Albert R. Kaufmann. Interscience Publishers, Div. of John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 440 Park Ave. South, New York 16, N.Y., 1962; 739 pages; $27. This work is primarily for metallurgists and fabrication specialists faced with the problems of making fuel elements. It discusses uranium, plutonium, and thorium, and their alloys; uranium dioxide and other ceramic fuels; cladding materials; interactions between core and cladding; and the behavior of fissionable material under irradiation. In addition it describes engineering aspects of fuel elements, fabrication of core materials, cladding and bonding techniques, fuel subassembly concepts, and inspection and testing. Concluding sections deal with description and performance of operational fuel elements, processing irradiated fuel elements, and fluid-fuel systems.