Radioactive hot cell access hole decontamination machine
Abstract
Radioactive hot cell access hole decontamination machine. A mobile housing has an opening large enough to encircle the access hole and has a shielding door, with a door opening and closing mechanism, for uncovering and covering the opening. The housing contains a shaft which has an apparatus for rotating the shaft and a device for independently translating the shaft from the housing through the opening and access hole into the hot cell chamber. A properly sized cylindrical pig containing wire brushes and cloth or other disks, with an arrangement for releasably attaching it to the end of the shaft, circumferentially cleans the access hole wall of radioactive contamination and thereafter detaches from the shaft to fall into the hot cell chamber.
- Inventors:
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- Richland, WA
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 864284
- Patent Number(s):
- 4343059
- Assignee:
- United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B08 - CLEANING B08B - CLEANING IN GENERAL
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- radioactive; hot; cell; access; decontamination; machine; mobile; housing; encircle; shielding; door; closing; mechanism; uncovering; covering; contains; shaft; apparatus; rotating; device; independently; translating; chamber; properly; sized; cylindrical; pig; containing; wire; brushes; cloth; disks; arrangement; releasably; attaching; circumferentially; cleans; wall; contamination; thereafter; detaches; fall; hot cell; properly sized; cell chamber; releasably attaching; housing contains; radioactive contamination; radioactive hot; cell access; wire brush; releasably attach; decontamination machine; /15/
Citation Formats
Simpson, William E. Radioactive hot cell access hole decontamination machine. United States: N. p., 1982.
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Simpson, William E. Radioactive hot cell access hole decontamination machine. United States.
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"Radioactive hot cell access hole decontamination machine". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/864284.
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title = {Radioactive hot cell access hole decontamination machine},
author = {Simpson, William E},
abstractNote = {Radioactive hot cell access hole decontamination machine. A mobile housing has an opening large enough to encircle the access hole and has a shielding door, with a door opening and closing mechanism, for uncovering and covering the opening. The housing contains a shaft which has an apparatus for rotating the shaft and a device for independently translating the shaft from the housing through the opening and access hole into the hot cell chamber. A properly sized cylindrical pig containing wire brushes and cloth or other disks, with an arrangement for releasably attaching it to the end of the shaft, circumferentially cleans the access hole wall of radioactive contamination and thereafter detaches from the shaft to fall into the hot cell chamber.},
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year = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1982},
month = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1982}
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