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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. B. Richman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 1 | Number 3 | June 1965 | Pages 267-270
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT65-A20512
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Methods were devised to use electrical resistance probes in the low-temperature water-cooled Hanford reactors to measure corrosion continuously during reactor operation and during chemical decontamination. The changing resistance of a corroding test element is compared with the resistance of a protected reference element. Typical probe results showed carbon-steel corrosion ranging from a 1 unit/y equilibrium rate to a 1050 units/y maximum rate during decontamination. (An arbitrary rate scale is used to obviate security classification.) Total corrosion from decontamination was equal to about 1.5 months of reactor operation.