The target hall has been locked-out as per Document-70039.

Forced IG1, IG1S and IG2 to switch on BIAS power supply

Wednesday, July 12, 2017, 11:53: 70 kV at 0.16 mA

2 sparks observed shortly after 70 kV was reached

Wednesday, July 12, 2017, 12:59: No sparks for the last hour.

BIAS power supply off. Forces removed.

 Earlier in the day it was noted that the rotate function of the crane had creased operation. After David has finished the block moves. Don and I checked the Crane's control unit in the ISAC crane control room and found the breaker tripped for the rotation. The breaker was reset and the crane's rotation is now operational. If this occurs in the future only Travis Cave, Don Jackson or a TRIUMF Electrician are allowed in that control box as it is a 480Volt system. Don or I because we know what we are looking for and the Electrician because they are allowed to touch with and deal 480 V systems. 

After re zeroing alignment telescope to master jig and adjusted parts into place:

Orientation: X = Left -, Right+; Y = Up +, Down -

Front wire target

X = 0.000, Y = 0.000

Rear wire target

X = 0.000, Y = +.008" (high)

All fasteners torqued to specification, steerer housing and assembly not installed yet. Weight of steerer assembly might cause rear to sag into place. Otherwise may attempt to split difference between the front and rear elements (alignment is on an angle in the horizontal vertical plane.)

 The spent SiC#36 has been moved from the south hot cell to the spent target vault.

 The NHC drain line was tested by pouring approximately 10 gallons of water through the drain grate at the base of the NHC partition wall.  Water was seen a few minutes later pouring into the sump labeled "ACTIVE SUMP" from the light coloured pipe on the west side of the inside of the sump.  Rob Walker had previously said that the hot cells drain into the sump next to this one which is labeled "SANITARY SUMP", which appears to be incorrect.

The ISAC active sump in the Active Service Room (#002 on B2 level) was pumped out yesterday using the standard procedure (Section 5.5.2 of the ISAC Operators' Manual, V1.0).  The procedure makes use of the auto stop feature of the pump-out system which stops when a low level float switch is triggered.  The water level was measured after pumping stopped, and was found to be approximately 21" above the base of the sump.  A new section of pipe will be added to the 4" drain line in the sump to move the drain opening below the low level water line so that air in the sump is not pulled into the drain network (which could end up in the NHC or TCS space).

 Roof blocks IRH1641, IRH1642, IRH1643, and IRH1644 have been fully assembled, labeled, and installed as per drawing IRH1652.  Fabrication of TCS shield block (IRH1646) and NHC module port block (IRH1645) is still in progress.

 The BIAS voltage was brought up to 70 kV today and held there for 1h. No sparking observed.

The spent Ta#52 target has been moved from the south hot cell to the spent target vault. See attached PDF for details.

Entered hot cell to preform replacement of slave tong cable. Existing cable shows no signs of wear so it has been re-installed. A spare tong cable has been loaded into a spare tong while in the hot cell in preparation for next time this cable needs to be replaced.

The spent Ta#53 has been moved to the spent target vault. See attached file for details.

David installed the new ball valve and connections for the SAS project module move ventilation. SASP0482. Drawing reference ISK5029B.

 The NHC module port shield block (IRH1645) and the TCS vessel shield block (IRH1646) were installed yesterday in the target hall according to assembly drawing IRH1652.  No issues were encountered during installation.  Vacuum was pulled on the TCS and a leak check was performed on the shield: no leaks found.

The 4" PVC drain line in the ISAC-1 active sump was modified so that the drain pipe terminates below the low level water line of the automatic pump-out system.  This will prevent backflow of sump gasses into the SHC, NHC, or TCS space if the air pressure in any of those rooms are lower than the sump air pressure.  The details of the modification were specified by Mechanical Services Group, and the work was done by Paul Jensen.  This system is defined in drawing IAM19183.

 HV was brought up to 70 kV for 1 h without sparks to test the new water installation.

ITW is configured to take proton beam.

TCS  cooling polyurethane lines have been re-routed to solve to HV sparking issue on old configuration between lines and bais plate.  New re-routed system is tested to 70KV without spark. No leak has been found on new lines after the test.

ECO 4369, drawings and models IRH1715, IRH1716 have been issued and released for this job. Drawings and Models are located in PDM-ISAC1 -TCS polyurethane water lines re-route folder.

Spare source tray build continued.

Initial alignment check in the morning:

- Target mounting plate target: Horizontal: .002, Vertical: -.002

- Ground electrode (bore) target, with un-clamped target: H 0.0 V -.003

- Ground electrode target (with target clamped): H: 0.0, V: .010

@14:10: sighting Master target position WRT sighting axis, calculated using the edges of the brunson target center circle edges calculated to center. Target circle is .02" in diameter.

- Master target mounted with slight finger torque.

- Front of master target, H .002 V -.002

- Rear of master target, H: 0.0 V: .005 (circle target is .020" in diameter)

- Rear of ground electrode target, H: .002, V: 0.011

@14:49: Replace mount plate target.

- Target mounting plate target: H -.001, V .001

- Ground electrode target: H .002, V .011 (rear target was rotated 90 deg from in the morning as a check)

@15:21 Steerer cone re-alignment.

- Undid the six screws holding the steerer cone and steerers to the aluminum flange and adjusted cone tip to RIB axis. The ground electrode bore was deemed not to be adjustable to the RIB axis with the current build order.

*Steerer cone assembly torque is 23 in-lbs

- Steerer cone target, H: .001, V: 0.0

- Steerer cone target, H: .002, V: .002 (after rotating target 180 degrees)

@15:30 Replaced target mounting plate target.

- Mounting plate target, H: .001, V: -0.001


Will go ahead and finish mounting components to mounting plate and final check the alignment after.

 Field measurements were taken of the old source trays. The old TM#2 source tray had a minimum field value of 0.50 mSv/hr and a maximum of 1.18 mSv/hr through 360 deg of rotation. The box was rotated around three times and put back in the vault. TM#1 old source tray was also removed and measured as well the field values for it were a minimum of 0.52 mSv/hr and a maximum of 1.15 mSv/hr through 360 deg of rotation. The box was rotated around three times and placed back in the vault. In both cases the box was roughly one metre from the radiation monitor.   

Source tray is complete for brazing, gas line bracket is currently missing but can be made in parallel with tube bending operations.

Source tray water lines to be fabricated according to ITA6144 drawing set.

- Alignment between target mounting plate and steerer cone is holding within .002"

- Aluminum soldering jigs are installed in place of the ceramics with fasteners only torqued just past "finger tight".