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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. J. Wittenberg, D. Ofte, W. G. Rohr
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 9 | September 1967 | Pages 550-555
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27937
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The published measurements of the physical properties of liquid plutonium and its alloys are reviewed. The unusually high viscosity is noted along with the low value for the heat of fusion and the volume decrease during melting. From these observations, a decrease in the metallic radius of plutonium during melting is suggested.
