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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.
Warren K. Eister
Nuclear Technology | Volume 32 | Number 1 | January 1977 | Pages 6-9
Technical Paper | Materials in Waste Storage / Radioactive Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31731
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Radioactive wastes generated in the commercial nuclear power program are to be converted to a stable package form and sent either to a Federally operated repository or to commercially operated shallow land burial sites. The status of alternate technologies to perform these operations has recently been reviewed and published. U.S. and Canadian materials research and development activities related to the commercial package wastes cover a wide range of waste forms and related waste treatment technologies for the various types of radioactive wastes. At this time, specific projects are under way and scheduled for completion to provide the plant-scale technology required for the engineered facilities for waste management.