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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.
W. L. Pearl, E. G. Brush, G. G. Gaul, G. P. Wozadlo
Nuclear Technology | Volume 1 | Number 3 | June 1965 | Pages 235-245
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT65-A20508
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Incoloy-800® fuel-cladding material has been corrosion-tested under heat-transfer conditions at metal temperatures up to 1410° F (766° C) in specially designed out-of-pile superheat facilities. The hydrogen and oxygen contents of the steam were controlled to simulate those found in boiling-water-reactor systems. The corrosion data from the 4000-h heat-transfer tests indicated good corrosion resistance up to at least 1300° F (704° C) metal temperature. A compositionally changed layer developed at the metal-oxide interface. The changed layer depth appeared to be a function of time and temperature of exposure. The descaled weight-loss data for the sheaths operated at a metal temperature of 1100 to 1300° F (593 to 704° C) indicate that greater than 80% of the oxide corrosion product adhered during the first 1000-h exposure, but only about 50% of the total oxidation product remained after 4000 h. The uniform corrosion experienced by the Incoloy-800® when exposed isothermally to 1050 and 1150° F (566 and 621° C) for 10 000h indicates an initially high-corrosion rate that decreases to a lower constant rate within the first 1000 h. An insignificant amount of the oxide was lost to the system.