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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. Greenborg
Nuclear Technology | Volume 2 | Number 5 | October 1966 | Pages 430-439
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT66-A27621
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Extensive neutron and gamma-ray measurements were performed in the reflector and primary shield of the NPR, a large power and plutonium production reactor. The measurements yielded fast, epithermal, and thermal-neutron flux and gamma-ray dose distributions through approximately 9 ft of reflector and shield assembly. Emphasis was placed on obtaining absolute flux and dose measurements with respect to reactor power. The measured fluxes and dose rates were compared to those calculated by the removal diffusion theory computer program MAC; a calculation in 18 removal groups and 31 diffusion groups. Agreement is excellent for fast-neutron flux and gamma-ray dose rate in the concrete shield and for thermal and epithermal flux in the graphite reflector. Calculations of thermal and epithermal fluxes in the concrete shield are in lesser agreement with measured values; generally within a factor of 2.