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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.
Edgar Berkey, George G. Sweeney, William M. Hickam
Nuclear Technology | Volume 5 | Number 5 | November 1968 | Pages 344-353
Technical Papers and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A28002
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The feasibility of using spark source mass spectrography for a direct multielement analysis of solid sodium is demonstrated. Two different sparking configurations are employed, one with the capability of obtaining local analyses and the other capable of bulk analyses. Sample handling and preparation are minimal. Both argon and vacuum are used to protect the sodium prior to analysis. Liquid nitrogen cooling applied to the sodium while sparking inhibits melting and preferential volatilization. Detection limits below 100 ppb atomic are readily attained, and there is reasonable agreement with emission spectrographs results. The analysis of doped solutions further confirms the applicability of the technique.