ZrC#6 has been moved from the south hot cell and into storage. It was placed in pail 120 in slot 5C of the vault. For more details see PDF.

 See work permit for details

 A copper bar jumper (ITD0488) was installed on the TGHT, TBHT and COIL conductors on the taregt hall side for TCS testing.

Jig for installation of target through hot cell roof has been assembled and placed in the target hall.

I craned down UCx11 target from TH into SHC. Chad was in SHC service area watching on it. The source tray moving jig was installed on the crane for this moving.

The spent Ta#44 target has been removed from the south hot cell, it was placed in pail #121 and placed in spot 4A of the storage vault. It was 276mSv/hr upon removal from the south hot cell.

The stand was used for transferring UCX11 targte from TH to SHC. The stand wit target was craned down from TH into SHC last week and stayed there over weekend. Chad and I removed the stand out of SHC yesterday. It was heavily contaminated. RPG and I spent more than 3 hours to clean this stand. See the emails I pasted below for  detail information.

Thanks, David, for letting me know about this. Here are survey results after my afternoon in Target Hall:

I spent 1.5 hours on additional decon of the stand, crane hook, and area around where David was doing the decon, finding up to 10k cpm (44-2) on some parts at first. Danka came to help after a bit (THANK YOU, DANKA) and we left the items covered in plastic and surveyed the area. Contamination survey results are as follows, numbers are units of cpm on the 44-2/RM14:

Tacky mats inside TMH door: 6000/2000

Tacky mats in hall before TMH door: 200/0

Tacky mats at boot box: 8000/4000

My booties: 50/0

Air sample at the decon area: 50/60 (also 100 cpm on alpha probe)

Floor swipes post-decon of floor: 0/0

Early results from a 10 min assay of the tacky mats shows predominantly Kr-85, Be-7, Sr-85, Rb-83, and Sr-82. A longer assay is underway.

The following measurements were made using the checking cave at the boot box (units of cpm):

David's respirator cartridges: 160

David's respirator: 0

Davids tank suit and booties: 1200

My suit: 100

My respirator: 0

The rags used for the decon work were contained in a bag and left behind the silos by the DST. This bag measured 240 uSv/h OC and 2 uSv/h at 0.5m

Thanks,

Andrew

Hi all, The UCx#11 target transferring stand is moved back from SHC to TH. However, the stand was heavily contaminated. On the first Windex clean up towel, the counts directly shoot over the 500K counts which is the maximum scales on both RM14 and 44-2. After almost 2 hours, more than 20 times cleaning up with Windex spray and paper towel wipe , the counts dropped below 300 now. It is extremely difficult to clean up this stand.  I dont think we should move the target this way again unless we have a solution on the contamination clean up. The stand is still hanging  on the crane, and waiting for RPG checking.                        Thanks    David

The following targets have been moved to the mini storage from the target storage vault:

1. Ta#38
2. Nb#7
3. TiC#3
4. SiC#29
5. NiO#2

These target will be removed from the mini storage and placed into the F-308's on December 3rd.

F-308's have been serviced and are ready to be filled with spent targets. F-308's witch were serviced are #6,#13,#15,#16,and #19.

The F-308s have been moved into the target hall,  for filling on wednesday.

Spent targets in the mini storage were placed into the F-308s yesterday, all F-308 have been removed from the the target hall and they no reside for the time being in the hallway between the north and south hot cells.

Hello all,

Access was required this morning to the TCS TK2 Expansion Tank to open a valve and re-fill the tank.

As the access path to this tank lacked any form of Fall Protection, Fall Arrest was employed.

Worksafe BC Part 11 Section 11.2 requires fall protection to be employed at elevations greater than 3 meters.  The expansion tank is located at an elevation far exceeding this regulation.
http://www2.worksafebc.com/publications/ohsregulation/part11.asp

The worker, Allon Messenberg, was fitted with a harness, personal self-retracting lifeline / lanyard with shock-pack, and carried two steel rope ring-ended slings with him to tie off to the structural beams overhead.  All products used were DBI-Sala safety products, which are kept in the Remote Handling machine shop Fall Protection Equipment lockers.  Several RH group members have keys to this locker, including me.

Three configurations were required to gain access to the tank (photo attached):
Configuration 1: Traversing the section between the 2nd floor offices and the ventilation duct.
Configuration 2: Traversing the section between the ventilation duct and the "cross point" of the structural beams.
Configuration 3: Tied-off to the "cross point" of the structural beams and working within the reach limits of the personal SRL and shock-pack.

Transitions between the three configurations required brief moments of un-clipping from the harnesses.  This will be solved in the future via the use of additional carabiners and lanyards.

Operations has advised me that they have observed either TRIUMF workers or contractors working in this area without wearing Fall Arrest equipment.  My request is for staff and operations to stay vigilant in observing access to this area. 

Any work performed in this area without the usage of fall arrest must be reported in an NCR.

I welcome any comments from those who have ideas for improving the safe method of access to this tank.

The cooling package is described in the TCS operating manual, Document-103881.  Page 8 states clearly that Fall Arrest is required to access this valve.

Regards,

Grant

Final assembly of the source tray for TM2 was started this morning.

Sliding tray was received from keensert installation and cleaned.

Mounting plate/ionizer tube location jig was rechecked against assembly ITA3136...Mounting plate was loosened, jigs for centering the ceramic shields installed and fasteners re-torqued to 57 in lbs.

Upon attempted assemble of ITA3536 and 3537 (support frames) it was noticed that the countersinks were not deep enough...the heads of the screws protrude and would interfere with/damage the support insulators. These items have been given to Dan to have the counterbores adjusted...drawing should be changed to insure a small gap.

Also, one of the support frames has marks on its side that may be a high voltage issue.

Upon inspection of the components in question (ITA3540 & 3538) it was found that they have been made to spec and model; however the spec& model does not allow for adequate theoretical clearance given tolerances. Countersinks will be adjusted and changes documented.

"Pitting" will attempt to be lapped.

Last Friday, During the crane per use check, I found the main power supply to to crane was shut off. I was told   Don and Travis shut off the main power before Triumf power outage. Travis restored crane main power and I  could turn on the main relay on radio pedant  in TH.  But, I didnt have all crane main bridge movement controls on TH raido pedant except rotation. I still have all movement controls on small trolley from the radio pedant. When I operated radio pedant, Travis could hear the relay works in crane control room, but in TH no crane movements. It looks like a crane control problem so Dave Morris was contacted. Dave found one of battery on PLC board is dead and need to be replaced.He did order the battery right way. On this Wednesday, Dave noticed us we could temporarily run the crane. I went to T.H  for checking. At the beginning, I found I cant not turn on the crane main relay from radio pedant in TH. Don was in crane control room. He switched the crane control from TH radio  mode to control room pedant( big yellow control box laid on the ground, the mode switch is located on the up left corner of first main panel)  and he turned on the main relay by doing this and got all movement controls from the big yellow pedant. After switching the mode back to TH radio mode I also got all the controls from TH radio pedant. Everything worked fine on crane so we moved the man lift into TH on Wednesday afternoon and arranged the TH crane inspection on Thursday. On Thursday morning, Gordon Crane guys came in TH and started their inspection. At the beginning, everything works fine. But after they did some operation and checks on crane, the crane main relay could not be switched on again (from TH  raid box). The crane inspection job are suspended. RH group tried to active the main relay by switching the mode back to yellow pedant in crane control room just like we did on Wedsday, but it did not work this time. David Morris was contacted to check from his side if anything wrong. He checked and told us the program is working and everything  is good from his side. A crane expert is needed to trouble shoot this problem. Neil Wong is going to bring Gordon crane guys and start to trouble shoot the problem this morning.

Gordon crane technician started TH crane trouble shooting this morning. The problem is found that there is no 115VAC power supply to energize  a main coil which is used to switch on 450V AC power supply to crane. He did a test and found  the crane could be operated  by big yellow pedant in control room when he manually gave the coil 115VAC power supply to energize it.. At that moment, the crane is set to big yellow pedant operating mode. But, he can not figure out why there is no 115VAC power to this coil.The wiring  tracking back is not an easy job for him. The troubleshooting is  stopped now. The job will be resumed on next week with more skilled technician involving in from Gordon crane.

The new gas bottle storage rack has been installed by/for the south hot cell.

Dave.Morris installed a new battery on crane control PLC board and uploaded the program. Travis, Dan and I tested the crane in local, remote, and test mode. The crane works fine. Also, the TH lock up has been tested. Everything is good.

The copper bars was installed by David and Anders. After the measurements were completed, the copper bars were removed.

See photo and attached spread sheet.

 See e-log entry for ITE for details. The copper bars have not been removed. They can be used for testing the new power supplies.

Local measurement was done by Ray with a voltmeter. The voltmeter was consistent with EPICS readback and local readback on the power supplies. A voltage drop of 0.137 V @ 580 A was measured across the bus bar from the TGHT power supply to the cooled transmission lines.

Dan and I replaced pedal wheels and coils on ITE water flow sensors. It is a shut down job we did every two years. See attachment for detail.