Remote maintenance lessons learned'' on prototypical reprocessing equipment

Conference · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:6571592

Kring, C T; Schrock, S L

Hardware representative of essentially every major equipment item necessary for reprocessing breeder reactor nuclear fuel has been installed and tested for remote maintainability. This testing took place in a cold mock-up of a remotely maintained hot cell operated by the Consolidated Fuel Reprocessing Program (CFRP) within the Fuel Recycle Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The reprocessing equipment tested included a Disassembly System, a Shear System, a Dissolver System, an Automated Sampler System, removable Equipment Racks on which various chemical process equipment items were mounted, and an advanced servomanipulator (ASM). These equipment items were disassembled and reassembled remotely by using the remote handling systems that are available within the cold mock-up area. This paper summarizes the lessons learned'' as a result of the numerous maintenance activities associated with each of these equipment items. 4 refs., 3 figs., 1 tab.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/NE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 6571592
• Report Number(s): CONF-901101-34; ON: DE91000715; TRN: 91-000460
• Resource Relation: Conference: American Nuclear Society winter meeting, Washington, DC (USA), 11-15 Nov 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
42 ENGINEERING
CONSOLIDATED FUEL REPROCESSING PROGRAM
FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS
MAINTENANCE
REMOTE HANDLING EQUIPMENT
MANIPULATORS
REMOTE HANDLING
SERVOMECHANISMS
CONTROL EQUIPMENT
COORDINATED RESEARCH PROGRAMS
EQUIPMENT
LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
050800* - Nuclear Fuels- Spent Fuels Reprocessing
420203 - Engineering- Handling Equipment & Procedures