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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.
C. V. Chester, R. O. Chester
Nuclear Technology | Volume 9 | Number 6 | December 1970 | Pages 786-795
Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT70-A28710
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The Turkey Point pressurized water reactor was analyzed as a Civil Defense problem in a nuclear attack. It is postulated that the reactor presents no additional hazard in a target area unless a large fraction of the fission product inventory in the core can be promptly released due to weapon effects. High explosive tests on scale models of the pressure vessel and pertinent shielding were employed to determine the required delivery accuracy of nuclear weapons to rupture the pressure vessel and release the core fission product inventory. We conclude that the presence of a power reactor in a target area will not add significantly to the number of casualties produced by a nuclear weapon unless the reactor receives essentially a direct hit. Further, preferentially targeting a PWR would be prohibitively expensive because, with existing missile accuracies, a large number of weapons would have to be targeted on the reactor to ensure getting a direct hit.