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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.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 7 | Number 1 | July 1969 | Pages 76-83
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A new calibration has been developed for the electromagnetic flowmeters located on the 14-in. lines of the primary sodium coolant system of the Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant. This new calibration has incorporated the experimental hydraulic characteristics of the primary sodium coolant loop, the voltage outputs of the flowmeters on the 14- and 6-in. lines, and the original calibration of the flowmeters on the 6-in. lines. Utilizing this new calibration, the system pressure drop was found to vary as the 1.9'th power of the flow rate of the primary system. This relationship is in good agreement with theory. A comparison of the measured sodium flow using the new calibration with the calculated value from heat balance measurements showed good agreement, with an average deviation of 1.7%. (The “as-read” values from the flowmeters based on the previous calibration, which were developed using pump hydraulic characteristics and the pump affinity laws, were too high by an average of 10%.) This new calibration is now being used in the Fermi plant.