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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.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | July 1975 | Pages 265-277
Technical Paper | Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24428
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Monte Carlo calculations for pipe intersections containing highly enriched, concentrated uranyl nitrate solution and reflected by a concrete room provide safe pipe diameters for a range of room sizes. The pipe-wall material (steel, aluminum, or Plexiglas) has a small effect on keff for 0.125-in.-thick pipes. Replacing the uranyl nitrate solution by uranyl fluoride results in a large increase in keff, and using plutonium nitrate (3% 240Pu) lowers keff Reflector savings curves for water and for concrete around an infinite cylinder of uranyl nitrate solution show that thick concrete is a much better reflector than an equal thickness of water. The calculational data are summarized in the form of a table and a set of rules for the use of the table in the calculation of safe dimensions for a system of intersecting pipes. This method is also applicable to plutonium systems if the plutonium contains at least 3 wt% 240Pu and no 241Pu.