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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.
Robert E. Rothe, Louis W. Doher, A. L. Johnston
Nuclear Technology | Volume 28 | Number 1 | January 1976 | Pages 165-171
Technical Note | Fuels for Pulsed Reactor / Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT76-A31550
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A station has been installed at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Safety Laboratory to volume-calibrate their storage tank farm housing 560 kg of enriched (93.2% 235U) uranium solution. The calibration (relating contained solution volume to height) of tanks used to store or process fissile materials is often complicated by the large surface area presented by thousands of borosilicate glass rings used for criticality prevention. Yet, an accurate and reliable measurement of this relation is important to good material accountability and possibly to nuclear safety. The latter purpose can be served by detecting accumulations of insoluable precipitates or the formation of critically unsafe voids in the bed of rings. With this station, calibrations are easily accomplished with an accuracy better than 1 liter at any point within a 500-liter tank. Additional benefits include increased safety through reduced potential for contamination release, improved efficiency since one operator replaces the previously required two, and the complete elimination of both solid and liquid contaminated waste generation.