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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.
Günter Hartmann
Nuclear Technology | Volume 32 | Number 3 | March 1977 | Pages 290-296
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31752
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A model for inspection, and its application to a reprocessing plant of the Nuclear Fuel Services type, have been developed. Two possible means of diverting material are (a) diverting material within the uncertainty of the material balance and (b) falsifying data. Statistical tests are performed by the inspecting authority: In the first case, the inspector compares material unaccounted for (MUF) with a significance threshold, while in the second case, a sample of the reported data is compared with his own remeasurements. Both methods are combined, and the optimal control and diversion strategies are computed (for an assumed probability of a false alarm and the amount to be diverted).