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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.
J. J. Ritts, M. Solomito, P. N. Stevens
Nuclear Technology | Volume 7 | Number 1 | July 1969 | Pages 89-99
Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28390
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Fluence-to-kerma factors (where fluence is the time-integrated neutron flux and kerma is equal to the total kinetic energy released in materials resulting from direct neutron interaction per unit mass of the irradiated medium) were calculated at discrete neutron energies from 0.025 eV to 15 MeV for various compositions of the human body—tissue, muscle, bone, lung, brain, red marrow, and the “standard man” composition. The 11 most common elements in man were considered and the latest cross sections used. An attempt was made to include all significant reactions, namely elastic scattering with an anisotropic correction, inelastic scattering, neutron capture, (n, 2n) reactions, (n, charged particle) reactions, and beta or positron emissions from these reactions. These calculations show improvements in the entire energy range over previously reported neutron kerma factors.