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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.D. Ludwick
Nuclear Technology | Volume 8 | Number 3 | March 1970 | Pages 310-313
Note | Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT70-A28679
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The iodine adsorption characteristics of activated charcoal from the gas confinement systems of nuclear reactors at Hanford were determined. Results from tests conducted under ambient conditions with molecular iodine showed that all reactor charcoals were adequate for continued use. However, at high humidity and temperature, all reactor charcoals exhibited reduction in iodine adsorption of at least 2% and in a jew cases the loss was severe enough to warrant charcoal replacement. Under the more severe adsorption conditions, the iodine efficiency range for the nine reactors tested was 82 to 98%.