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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.
V. O. Uotinen, J. H. Lauby, L. C. Schmid, W. P. Stinson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | August 1972 | Pages 257-271
Technical Paper | Plutonium Utilization in Commercial Power Reactors / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A31150
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Results of experiments conducted in the Critical Approach Facility are presented for a total of 48 lattices of plutonium-enriched rods. Five kinds of UO2-PuO2 rods ranging in PuO2 enrichment from 1.5 to 4.0 wt%, and three kinds of Al-Pu rods ranging in plutonium enrichment from 1.8 to 5.0 wt%, were used in the experiments. The lattices covered a broad range of water-to-rod volume ratios. Parameters reported for each lattice are: the number of rods required for a critical loading, the relaxation length measured in an exponential loading, the critical buckling, and reflector savings. For five of the lattices results are also reported of the worth of central absorber rods of boron and hafnium. The results of approach-to-critical experiments were verified by comparing them with the results of critical measurements conducted in three lattices.