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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.
L. Green, M. M. Levine, A. Aronson, W. Bent, D. A. Goellner, J. J. McNicholas, G. Nugent, G. Pancer, H. Susskind, J. Chernick, D. Gurinsky, L. P. Hatch
Nuclear Technology | Volume 1 | Number 2 | April 1965 | Pages 107-130
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT65-A20478
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An analysis of a conceptual design for a 1000-MW(e) Settled-Bed Fast Reactor fueled with UC and PuC spheres and cooled by liquid sodium has been made to determine its technical and economic feasibility. The study includes a reactor physics analysis, an engineering design and analysis of the thermal and hydraulic characteristics, and a study of the system economics. The study shows that there are no inherent technical problems for a settled-bed fast reactor of this size. Total power-generating costs were shown to be as low as 3.84 mills/kWh for fuel leased from the AEC and 4.14 mills/kWh for fuel that is privately owned.
