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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.
H. T. Sampson, G. H. Miley
Nuclear Technology | Volume 5 | Number 3 | September 1968 | Pages 145-155
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A28044
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Stable voltage outputs exceeding 10 kV have been obtained with two multicollector gamma-electric cell designs using epoxy or polystyrene dielectric. Short circuit currents ranged from 3 to 5 × 10−17 A/cm2 per R/h. Voltage breakdown and erratic output, observed in certain cell designs and ranges of gamma dose rates, are attributed to radiation effects including induced polarization of the dielectric. A theory for high voltage operation, involving both the collection of Compton electrons and leakage currents, is developed.