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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.
L. M. Epstein, R. R. Ferber
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 11 | November 1967 | Pages 692-698
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27905
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Low-resistivity (10Ω-cm) silicon diodes were employed as fast-neutron monitors, using a 238U conversion foil. Resolved fission spectra were recorded in-pile at a fast-neutron flux of ≈ 1011 n/(cm2 sec) and up to an integrated flux of 4.6 × 1015 fast neutrons/cm2. Preamplifiers designed especially for this work included a bias supply of very low dc impedance because of the large leakage currents in the radiation-damaged diodes. Despite this leakage, the damaged diodes were not very noisy and could withstand more bias (≈45V) than the undamaged diodes.