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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.
Lucy Wu Person
Nuclear Technology | Volume 32 | Number 3 | March 1977 | Pages 320-325
Technical Note | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31756
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A number of sodium fire experiments have been analyzed using the SPOOL-FIRE code, which is available from the Argonne Code Center. Good agreement is observed between theoretical calculation and experimental results. The same experiments have been analyzed previously by workers using the SPRAY-1 and CACECO codes, and our results are compatible with the results from these codes. SPOOL-FIRE is a fast-running code and can handle both sodium spray fire and pool fire simultaneously. Results of this analysis suggest specific areas where experiments are needed to further our understanding of the mechanism of sodium burning.