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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.
G. S. Brunson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 25 | Number 3 | March 1975 | Pages 553-571
Technical Paper | Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24393
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High-resolution gamma spectrometry is routinely performed for fission product gases in Experimental Breeder Reactor II as a means of detecting and identifying fuel elements with leaks in the cladding. Detailed data accumulated for more than two years of operation has established background concentrations as well as the behavior of these fission products from eight different fuel elements. Different types of fuel have different “fingerprints.” It appears quite easy to distinguish a carbide leaker from either metal or oxide. The distinction between oxide and metal is less clear cut, but our results indicate that identification can be made with some confidence on the magnitude of the signal and on isotopic ratios, particularly the ratio 88Kr/138Xe. Further analysis has been made of the 23Ne activation rate, which is expected to be much higher and far more troublesome in future sodium-cooled fast reactors.