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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.
P. A. Carlson, W. K. Kratzer
Nuclear Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | March 1976 | Pages 383-387
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT76-A31520
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The N Reactor is equipped with 12 horizontal U-tube steam generators. Originally, these contained Type 304 stainless-steel tubes. From 1964 through 1971, ten were retubed with Inconel-600 tubes because severe stress corrosion cracking was experienced in stainless-steel tubes. Tube performance is monitored by eddy-current examinations, tube removals for destructive examination, and checking for radioactivity in the secondary system. The results of this program show that no significant corrosion has occurred in the Inconel-600 tubes in 11 yr of service. Five tube leaks have occurred in the two remaining units with Type 304 stainless-steel tubes over the same period.