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CLEAN SMART bill reintroduced in Senate
Senators Ben Ray Luján (D., N.M.) and Tim Scott (R., S.C.) have reintroduced legislation aimed at leveraging the best available science and technology at U.S. national laboratories to support the cleanup of legacy nuclear waste.
The Combining Laboratory Expertise to Accelerate Novel Solutions for Minimizing Accumulated Radioactive Toxins (CLEAN SMART) Act, introduced on February 11, would authorize up to $58 million annually to develop, demonstrate, and deploy innovative technologies, targeting reduced costs and safer, faster remediation of sites from the Manhattan Project and Cold War.
D. Elias, F. J. Munno
Nuclear Technology | Volume 12 | Number 1 | September 1971 | Pages 46-55
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A15897
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The computational system, 2DBCOST, efficiently determines optimum fast reactor fuel management strategies. 2DBCOST, including the associated optimization technique used, provides a basis on which to study the impact of variables such as fabrication, reprocessing, shipping, interest, fuel handling, material costs, inventory lead times, and post-irradiation lag times on reactor fuel costs and to subsequently determine the lowest cost operating policy. The computational system will adjust an LMFBR fuel management policy to meet changing economic or marketplace conditions. Trial use has shown that the code will rapidly determine an optimum fast-reactor blanket fuel management scheme for the cases studied. The impact of both blanket radial out-in subassembly movement and moderator seeding was investigated. Cost penalties associated with moving six sub-assemblies per cycle less than the optimum will approach three million dollars over a 10-year period; similar savings are demonstrated with respect to moderator seeding. The objective function is shown to be unimodal.