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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.
J W Rogers, D. A. Millsap, Y. D. Harker
Nuclear Technology | Volume 25 | Number 2 | February 1975 | Pages 330-348
Technical Paper | Material Dosimetry | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24372
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The Coupled Fast Reactivity Measurements Facility (CFRMF) is a zoned-core critical assembly with a fast-neutron spectrum zone in the center of an enriched 235 U, water-moderated thermal “driver” zone. The neutron spectrum of the fast zone has a mean energy of ∼0.72 MeV with an energy distribution of interest in fast breeder reactor dosimetry and reaction rate studies. The CFRMF neutron field has become one of the standard spectra for testing fast-neutron reactions in fissile and nonfissile materials in an interlaboratory experimental effort. The CFRMF has found much use as a fast-neutron field for the activation of materials of interest in the fast breeder reactor programs because of its well -studied energy spectrum and spatial gradients, intensity [up to 1011 n/(cm2 sec)], the precise control and reproducibility of intensity and experimental amenabilities. The neutron energy spectrum at the core center has been measured by proton-recoil spectrometry between ∼3.0 keV and ∼2.5 MeV and calculated by resonance absorption, transport theory, and Monte Carlo multigroup techniques from 10 MeV down. Neutron flux distributions in the fast zone have been examined by activation and fission rate measurements which show that gradients do not exceed ∼0.3% in the region where the experiments are located.