CONCEPTION ET MISE EN OEUVRE D'UNE MACHINE A TRIER LE LINGE EN FONCTION DE SA CONTAMINATION PAR DES PRODUITS RADIOACTIFS

Technical Report · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1962

OSTI ID:4795901

Cohendy, G; Alles, M; Pellerin, A

At the Marcoule Plutonium Production Center special clothing is worn in the active zones. A large fraction of these clothes is contaminated and must be subjected to specialized treatments during washing in order to be reworn without danger. Because of the large amount of clothes to be treated, it became necessary to install a special semi-automatic washing machine; the role of the operator is limited to placing the clothing in the machine and to removing the baskets of sonted clothes. The machine was designed to be used with a sorting method which is based on BETA radiation and in which Geiger counters actuate an appropriate electronic system depending on the various degrees of contamination of the treated clothing. (auth)

• Research Organization: Development of a Machine for Sorting Laundry According to its Radioactive Contamination; France. Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique. Centre de Production de Plutonium de Marcoule, Chusclan
• NSA Number: NSA-17-000306
• OSTI ID: 4795901
• Report Number(s): CEA-2165
• Country of Publication: France
• Language: English

Related Subjects

BETA PARTICLES
CLOTHING
CONTAMINATION
DECONTAMINATION
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
GEIGER-MUELLER COUNTERS
HEALTH AND SAFETY
LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
MPC
PLANNING
PLUTONIUM
PRODUCTION
QUANTITY RATIO
RADIATION EFFECTS
RADIATION PROTECTION
SAFETY