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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.
M. G. Robin
Nuclear Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | March 1976 | Pages 482-489
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT76-A31528
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The Stein Industrie steam generator of the 250-MW(e) demonstration fast breeder reactor Phenix comprises three units. Each unit is divided into 12 evaporator modules, 12 superheater modules, and 12 reheater modules. Twenty-four evaporators are made of 2¼ Cr—1 Mo ferritic steel and 12 are made of 2¼ Cr—1 Mo—1 Nb stabilized ferritic steel. All superheaters and reheaters are made of 321 austenitic steel. Since Oct. 1973, this steam generator has been submitted to a number of startups and shutdowns and some 9000 h of operation at full load without any leak, with an acceptable hydrogen diffusion rate of 0.25 g/h per unit through the single wall of the tubes. The Fives-Cail Babcock steam generator selected for the 1200-MW(e) Fast Breeder Power Plant Super Phenix is comprised of four modules with a 357-tube helical bundle made of Alloy 800 housed in a shell made of an austenitic steel (Type 304 or 316L). The module is rated at 750 MW(th) and weighs 140 tons. Other steam generators made of ferritic steels are considered in the longer range for power plants beyond Super Phenix.