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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. Boltax, P. Murray, A. Biancheria
Nuclear Technology | Volume 9 | Number 3 | September 1970 | Pages 326-337
Fuel Element Performance Model | Symposium on Theoretical Models for Predicting In-Reactor Performance of Fuel and Cladding Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT70-A28787
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The status of fast reactor mixed-oxide fuel performance model development, involving the OLYMPUS and CYGRO-F codes, is reviewed. Input information in several critical areas is examined including: the swelling, irradiation creep, and ductility of stainless-steel cladding; and the swelling and plasticity of mixed-oxide fuel. The predictions from the two codes are illustrated by parametric studies and application to high fluence/burnup ratio fuel rods of interest to the LMFBR program. The analytical studies indicate the major effects of stainless-steel swelling on fuel rod performance and the relationship between fuel density and cladding creep strain.