Why high-capacity manipulators and lead glass windows

Conference · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6266393

Grisham, D L; Lambert, J E

The Monitor remote-handling system was developed to maintain the main experimental beam line at the Clinton P. Anderson Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF) of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The technology and operating experience developed at LAMPF can be applied to other areas where handling of radioactive, hazardous, or toxic materials is required. These could include radiological incidents similar to Three Mile Island and toxic material spills, such as chlorine tank car derailments, where no provision for remote-handling exists. The technology can also be applied to routine radioactive remote-handling operations now conducted in conventional hot cells. These operations are normally done using mechanical master-slave manipulators with viewing through lead glass windows. The conventional facility can be replaced by a plain shielded box with an equivalent of the front end of Monitor inside. Master-slave manipulators of the future should be of 10-kg capacity with a force-reflection threshold of 0.2, minimum size, and provision for total sealing.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 6266393
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-81-2571; CONF-810606-96; ON: DE81030245; TRN: 81-016141
• Resource Relation: Conference: American Nuclear Society's annual meeting, Miami Beach, FL, USA, 7 Jun 1981
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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