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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.
G. B. Zorzoli
Nuclear Technology | Volume 20 | Number 2 | November 1973 | Pages 109-113
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT73-A31346
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The potential of metallic thorium as a reactor fuel has been examined. Two particular cases were taken into consideration: a light water breeder reactor (LWR) and a pressurized water reactor (PWR). The comparison with a standard LWBR (ThO2) and with a standard PWR (UO2) points out the potential benefits of the proposed concepts from the economic point of view, as well as from that of conserving natural resources.
