Field maintenance of radiation-shielding windows at HFEF
The achievement of excellent viewing through hot-cell shielding windows does not occur by chance. Instead, it requires a well planned and executed program of field maintenance. The lack of such a program is a major factor when a hot-cell facility has poor window viewing. At HFEF, all preventive maintenance is performed by one group of trained technical-support personnel under the immediate direction of a Systems Engineer, who has responsibility for the shielding windows. Window maintenance is prescheduled and recorded by being incorporated into the computerized Maintenance Data System (MDS). Measurements of window light transmission are scheduled annually to determine glass browning or oil cloudiness conditions within the window tank. The tank oil is sampled and chemically analyzed annually to determine the moisture content, the acidity, and the probable deterioration rate caused by irradiation.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., Idaho Falls, ID (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31-109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 5748293
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-831047-73-Summ.; ON: DE83015376
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Nuclear Society winter meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 30 Oct 1983
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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