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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.
S. R. Bierman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | July 1975 | Pages 352-381
Technical Note | Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24435
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Fourteen different critical systems of plutonium-uranium homogeneous mixtures are arranged in a format amenable for use in validating calculational techniques and checking nuclear data. Each experimental system is completely defined under a single benchmark number. For the data that permit it, multiple critical dimensions are given for each fuel composition and geometry. Wherever possible, experimentally determined correction factors are provided for reducing the complexity of the critical assemblies.