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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.
Felix B. Litton, John H. Bender
Nuclear Technology | Volume 5 | Number 5 | November 1968 | Pages 299-301
Technical Papers and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A27994
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Low-temperature distillation is recommended as the method for removing sodium from sodium-bonded, sintered, mixed-carbide fuel pellets. Distillation of the sodium at 5 × 10−6 torr pressure and 485 ± 10°C has no deleterious effect on the microstructure, whereas the porosity may be altered by dissolution techniques.
