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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. Crobinson, N. J. Ackermann, Jr.
Nuclear Technology | Volume 13 | Number 3 | March 1972 | Pages 250-256
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A31079
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A technique was developed for the inference of shutdown reactivity by using the experimental auto - or cross-power spectral density data normally obtained in neutron noise experiments at low and intermediate frequencies (Low-Intermediate Frequency Technique, LIFT). Reactivity determined by LIFT is dependent on the neutron detection efficiency, whereas reactivity determined by normal noise experiments is dependent on the neutron generation time. Furthermore, if a noise experiment is to be used for the inference of reactivity, very little additional experimental data are required for the application of LIFT. It is recommended that LIFT be applied as a complementary measurement to the normal noise measurement. Results determined by LIFT for the shutdown state for previously reported one- and two-detector noise experiments agree well with results determined by normal noise methods.