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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. Z. Serpan, Jr., W. N. McElroy
Nuclear Technology | Volume 13 | Number 2 | February 1972 | Pages 185-193
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A31053
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Damage functions, represented here as multigroup cross sections for neutron-induced radiation damage production, were derived for irradiation of two A 350-series ferritic steels at temperatures of 510 and 430°F (266 and 221°C), representing the PM-2A and SM-1A reactor pressure vessels. The functions were derived using the SAND-II computer code with the neutron spectra and resulting increases in transition temperature from a series of irradiations in different reactor locations. The derived damage functions effected a best correlation of available data and on that basis are considered good through comparison of total fluence values determined both from experimental measurements and from the damage-function calculation technique. Trends are suggested for the magnitude of damage function cross-section values as a function of energy at low vs elevated temperatures. However, the present experimental data are not sufficiently definitive to draw positive conclusions about the specific contributions of neutrons of all energy levels to the neutron embrittlement process.