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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.
D. E. Deonigi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 1 | January 1967 | Pages 18-25
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27820
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Crossed-progeny fueling systems are those in which a reactor, such as a PWR, would burn 233U in natural uranium and supply plutonium to a D2O reactor, which in turn would burn the plutonium in thorium and supply 233U for the PWR. Optimum moderator-to-fuel ratios are determined for these systems. They are influenced noticeably by plutonium credits but little by processing costs. Conversion ratios, neutron balances, and fuel cycle costs are calculated. Uranium-233 in natural uranium is an attractive fuel in a PWR, but plutonium-in-thorium, which does not appear attractive in a PWR, does appear so in a D2O-moderated reactor.