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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.
D. M. Alger, S. R. Bull
Nuclear Technology | Volume 17 | Number 2 | February 1973 | Pages 189-192
Technical Paper | Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT73-A31246
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A high resolution thermal-neutron radiography facility has been designed and constructed at the 5-MW University of Missouri Research Reactor Facility. Neutrons leaving the core pass through 3 in. of beryllium, 13 in. of graphite, 4 in. of lead, and 8 in. of bismuth before entering the variable aperture of the conical collimator. This filtering produces a beam with a neutron-to-gamma-ray ratio >107 n/(cm1 mR). The variable aperture permits beam resolutions from 28:1 to 400:1 with neutron fluxes in the 13- × 13-in. exposure chamber from 8 × 107 to 4.7 × 105 n/(cm2 sec), respectively.