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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.
H. H. Nichols
Nuclear Technology | Volume 9 | Number 1 | July 1970 | Pages 112-119
Instrument | Symposium on Theoretical Models for Predicting In-Reactor Performance of Fuel and Cladding Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT70-A28733
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The integral gamma-ray counting efficiency was measured for six CdTe detectors using gammas from 57Co, 85Kr, 137Cs, and 60Co. Changes in efficiency were measured as a function of temperature (-50 to 66°C), detector bias (50 to 100 V), pulse clipping time (0.25 to 1.6 µSec), and energy threshold setting (25, 50, 75, and 100 keV). The change is mainly due to trapping and detrapping of charge carriers. For a clipping time of 1 µ sec, changes in efficiency tiS high as 300% were observed over the temperature range -50 to 66°C. This change in efficiency was reduced to <10% by using only the fast component of the pulses generated. Total gamma-ray efficiency approaching the theoretical limit was measured at 23°C. Presently, CdTe detectors are not intended for use as spectrometers, but are intended to be used as gamma-ray counters over a wide temperature range.