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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. E. Kaiser
Nuclear Technology | Volume 25 | Number 1 | January 1975 | Pages 138-149
Technical Paper | Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24356
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Analytical corrections for the effect of subcritical reactivity on /βeff, detector efficiency, and 240Pu source worth in control-rod-group worth measurements in zero-power plutonium reactor Assembly 3 have been evaluated. Calculations of each factor were performed for a number of subcritical configurations in Phases 1B and 2; the results are presented and compared to the critical reference case. An evaluation of the method is included to establish a logical and efficient procedure for determining such corrections for future assemblies, which shows that extrapolations between similar configurations can be made accurately on the basis of only one or two rod patterns.