Remotex: a new concept for efficient remote operation and maintenance in nuclear fuel reprocessing. [Hot Experimental Facility (HEF)]

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5116370

Feldman, M J; White, J R

Remotex is a concept of remote operation and maintenance that utilizes advanced manipulator design to improve plant operating efficiency, reduce personnel exposure, and improve safeguards and diversion resistance. It is a concept developed over the past two years in the conceptual design of the Hot Experimental Facility (HEF), a mechanically intense pilot plant facility designed to demonstrate reprocessng technology for early US breeder demonstration reactors. The Remotex concept is directly applicable to all segments of nuclear and nonnuclear industries where work tasks or conditions exist that are hazardous to the health of man.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 5116370
• Report Number(s): CONF-800943-14; TRN: 80-016583
• Resource Relation: Conference: National topical meeting of fuel cycles for the 80's, Gatlinburg, TN, USA, 29 Sep 1980
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION
FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS
MAINTENANCE
REMOTE CONTROL
HEF
MANIPULATORS
HOT LABS
NUCLEAR MATERIALS DIVERSION
OPERATION
PILOT PLANTS
REPROCESSING
SAFEGUARDS
CONTROL
EQUIPMENT
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
LABORATORIES
LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
REMOTE HANDLING EQUIPMENT
SEPARATION PROCESSES
050800* - Nuclear Fuels- Spent Fuels Reprocessing
055001 - Nuclear Fuels- Safeguards
Inspection
& Accountability- Technical Aspects