1. National Nuclear Energy Series, Plutonium Project Record, Vol. 14 A, “The Actinide Elements ”. G. T. Seaborg and J. J. Katz, Editors. New York: McGraw Hill Book Co. 1954. — This is a comprehensive summary of the chemical and nuclear properties of the actinide elements including all work published up to 1953–1954. It is the basic reference for the transuranium elements.
2. National Nuclear Energy Series, Plutonium Project Record, Vol. 14B, “The Transuranium Elements: Research Papers”, Edited by G. T. Seaborg, J. J. Katz and W. M. Manning. New York: McGraw Hill Book Co. 1949. — This is an extensive collection of original research papers on neptunium, plutonium, americium, and curium covering a large part of the work done in American laboratories during World War II.
3. Seaborg, Glenn T.: Place in Periodic System and Electronic Structure of the Heaviest Elements. Nucleonics 5 [5], 16 (1949).
4. Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy—Proceedings of the International Conference in Geneva, August 1955, United Nations, New York. — The coverage of the physics and chemistry of the transuranium elements is not extensive in these volumes, but the information given here on certain topics such as neutron physics and industrial chemical processing methods goes considerably beyond that previously published.
5. Progress in Nuclear Energy, Series 3, Vol. 3 “ Process Chemistry ”, Edited by F. R. Bruce, J. M. Fletcher, H. H. Hyman and J. J. Katz, Pergamon Press, Ltd. 1956. — A collection of papers on the principal methods in use or under consideration for industrial processing of plutonium and uranium.