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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.
David H. Lester, Gerald R. Bloom
Nuclear Technology | Volume 23 | Number 3 | September 1974 | Pages 284-289
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A15920
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Use of inlet mixing nozzles to distribute flow in sodium cold trap crystallizers was investigated. Water modeling tests were run in a 100-gal plastic model at water flows of 5.7 to 30 gal/min. During these tests a salt water tracer pulse was introduced into the inlet stream. This tracer was detected by conductivity probes placed in the tank at various angular locations at the top, middle, and bottom. Flow and water temperature in the tank were adjusted to satisfy hydraulic similarity, defined by matching a mixing and flow Reynolds number in the model and sodium component. The results of these tests indicate that modification of the inlet pipe at a 90-deg bend, directed tangentially on the annulus centerline, will produce significant improvements of flow distribution.