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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.
A. P. Malinauskas, J. W. Gooch, Jr., J. D. Redman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | January 1970 | Pages 52-57
Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT70-A28633
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The previously reported enhanced volatility of tellurium dioxide due to water vapor has been confirmed over the temperature range 825 to 970°K through vapor pressure measurements with a mass transport apparatus. Investigations of the temperature dependence of the characteristic equilibrium constant yield a value of 30.4 kcal/ mole for the heat of the (assumed) reaction TeO2(s) + H2O(g) = TeO(OH)2(g). Attempts to identify the gaseous hydroxide species through mass spectrometry were unsuccessful. Mass spectrometer studies of TeO2 vapor, however, indicate ∼20% dimer formation within the temperature range 920 to 1050°K.