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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, B. R. Leonard, Jr., and, R. C. Liikala
Nuclear Technology | Volume 18 | Number 2 | May 1973 | Pages 115-140
Technical Paper | A Review of Plutonium Utilization in Thermal Reactors / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT73-A31283
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The available experimental reactor physics data related to problems of plutonium recycle have been reviewed and analyzed. Included were data from both basic lattice studies and irradiation experiments. It is concluded that there exists a reasonable amount of experimental data on clean lattice critical arrays. Extension of the data base to include more information on fine structure parameters would improve the usefulness of the experimental data base for testing design methods. The principal area where neutronic data are lacking is in the irradiation behavior of plutonium-fueled cores. The precision of the basic cross-section data for plutonium isotopes is reviewed. The precision to which the cross sections for the plutonium isotopes is known is nearly comparable to that for the uranium isotopes. On the basis of theory-experiment comparisons that have been published by several groups, the accuracy of existing calculational models needs to be improved. The principal area for improvement appears to be in calculating the thermal-neutron spectrum in plutonium-fueled systems.