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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.
R. K. Hilliard, A. K. Postma, J. D. McCormack,*, L. F. Coleman**
Nuclear Technology | Volume 10 | Number 4 | April 1971 | Pages 499-519
Technical Paper | Symposium on Reactor Containment Spray System Technology / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A16261
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Eight large-scale spray experiments have been made in the 26 500 ft3 Containment Systems Experiment (CSE) vessel. In each experiment a major parameter was changed. Spray fluxes ranged from 0.025 to 0.3 gal/(min ft2). Spray drop size was 770- or 1210-µm mass median diameter (MMD). Atmospheric condition was air at room temperature and pressure or steam-air initially at 250°F, 48 psia. Three types of spray solutions were used: boric acid, pH 5; boric acid plus NaOH, pH 9.5; and boric acid plus 1 wt% Na2S2O3 with NaOH added to pH 9.5. The only major parameters not varied were the drop fall height (38 ft) and the gas-to-liquid volume ratio (∼80).