 Wednesday, January 04, 2012, 13:49, Travis Cave, Spent Target Vault, Standard Operation, , , Moving the spent targets to mini storage.
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Well the first of this year's lucky winners to win a fabulous one way trip to Chalk River are as follows. UC#1, UC#2, Ta#25, Ta#26, and Ta#37. First
these lucky winners will get to stay several days and night in the lovely all inclusive mini vault before being loaded in to their very own private F-308
flasks to be whisked away off to fabulous Chalk River. |
Thursday, December 15, 2011, 13:08, Travis Cave, Spent Target Vault, Standard Operation, , , Spent Target Assay 
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Spent target assay completed. A total of 16 target were looked at, 13 were low enough to be assayed and those 13 are at shippable levels, the other 3
of the 16 looked at were too hot to ship and assay. See attached pdf for complete details. |
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Thursday, November 24, 2011, 10:40, Travis Cave, ITW, Standard Operation, TM1, UCx#3, Module move
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| TM#1 with UCx#3 moved from the conditioning station to the west target station. |
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Thursday, November 24, 2011, 10:39, Travis Cave, ITW, Standard Operation, TM1, UCx#3, Module move
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| TM#1 with UCx#3 moved from conditioning station to west target station. Move went well. |
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 15:07, Bevan Moss, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM1, UCx #3, HV testing
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High Voltage (HV) testing was completed on TM1 today. Vacuum was very good 1.9 x 10^-7 T in the service cap, 3.2 x 10^-7 in the containment box,
and 2.0 x 10^-6 in the secondary. The voltage was successfully brought up to 27kV with a current draw of 0.12mA and o sparking. At the next step, 30 kV,
the current draw was above 0.3mA and sparking was beyond 20 sparks per minute. The module should not be taken above 27kV. There is the possibility this |
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Monday, November 21, 2011, 13:49, David Wang, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM1, , TM1 full leak check in conditioning station
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TM1 full leak check in conditioning station has been fulfilled this morning.Both air to vacuum leak check and waterlines helium 80psi pressure test are
fine.The result:
Air to vacuum helium spray:base leak rate on leak detector 1.6x E-9 atm .cc/sec.base pressure0.0xE-4 torr. sprayed helium around all flanges, turbo |
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Friday, November 18, 2011, 16:29, Bevan Moss, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM1, N/A, High Voltage (HV) testing
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TM1 was high voltage tested without a target on November 16, 2011 with Don Jackson, Pierre Bricault, and Bevan Moss. The module was able to hold
up to 25 kV but between that and 32 kV there was lots of discharge which could be measured in the vacuum. See the attached plot for the voltage current
and sparks. |
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Friday, November 18, 2011, 11:09, Travis Cave, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM1, UCx#3, Module move
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| TM#1 with UCx#3 has been moved from the south hot cell to the conditioning station. Move went well. |
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Friday, November 18, 2011, 09:56, chad fisher, South Hot-Cell, Standard Operation, TM1, UCx#3, UCx#3 Installation
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UCx#3 has been installed on TM1.
Leak check also complete.
Base Leak Rate 0.0 x 10-9 |
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Friday, November 18, 2011, 09:44, Travis Cave, South Hot-Cell, Standard Operation, TM1, UCx#3, Electrical check
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Electrical checks of TM#1 with UCx#3 have been completed. They all appear to be with in operational range. All megger checks were done at 500 volts.
See attached file for details. |
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Thursday, November 17, 2011, 11:52, Travis Cave, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM1, no target, Module move
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| TM#1 moved from the conditioning station to the south hot cell. Move went well. |
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Thursday, November 17, 2011, 11:51, Travis Cave, Spent Target Vault, Standard Operation, , TaC#1, Spent target move
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TaC#1 was moved from the south hot cell to the storage vault. It was placed in pail#92 and put in vault slot 7B. It was 239mSv/hr upon removal from the
south hot cell. |
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 07:46, chad fisher, South Hot-Cell, Standard Operation, TM1, TaC#1, Inspection of TaC#1
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Inspection of TaC#1 showed that the oven was indeed broken on the A+ (left oven leg) side of the central block.
See the following for pictures.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 07:44, chad fisher, South Hot-Cell, Standard Operation, TM1, TaC#1, TaC#1 Removal and inspection
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November 15, 2011 removed TaC#1 from TM1 and inspected TM1 for any obivous signs of trouble (Problems with EE at end of run).
Upon starting removal of the high current conductor fastener on A+ (Left oven leg) it became clear right away that the oven of the target was broken
as the leg moved as soon as the fasten was loosened. |
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 13:08, Travis Cave, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM1, , Move ot TM#1
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| TM#1 has been moved from the south hot cell to the conditioning station. Move went well. |
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Monday, November 14, 2011, 14:07, Travis Cave, ITW, Standard Operation, TM1, TaC#1, Module move
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| TM#1 with TaC#1 from the west target station to the south hot cell. Move went well. |
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Thursday, November 10, 2011, 14:33, Travis Cave, Spent Target Vault, Standard Operation, , , Spent Target Assay
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For the week of November 7th 2011, four of a possible ten targets that are in storage were assayed. Targets are as follows:
Target General average field @ 1 metre from edge of pail
SiC#24 1.99 mSv/hr |
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Friday, November 04, 2011, 11:12, Travis Cave, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM4, SiC#26 High Powered, Module move
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| TM#4 with SiC#26 HP move from the conditioning station to the East Target Station, move went well. |
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011, 13:12, Bevan Moss, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM4, SiC#26 High Powered, High Voltage (HV) testing
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The silicon carbide targets voltage was raised to 42 kV today before continuous current draw was observed. It took roughly 10 minutes to raise
the module to this voltage with only the occasional spark. The ION gauge reading was 2.0 x 10^-6 T, The service cap IMG 3.6 x 10^-6 T, and the secondary
vacuum was 4.5 x 10^-6 T. Setup check and conditioning was performed by Pierre. |
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Tuesday, November 01, 2011, 11:50, David Wang, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM4, , TM4 leak test on conditioning station
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I did a leak check again on TM4 today. This time, the leak detector pump to the bottom on both base pressure(0.0xE-4 torr) and base leak rate(0.0xE-9
atm.cc/sec). All high vacuum gauges on TM4 and conditioning station at -6torr range.IG1 is 3.3-6torr,PNG5(top of service cap)is 6.5-6 torr, and the PNG4(bottom
of the vessel )is 8.7-6torr. For air to vacuum leak checking, I checked the panel we moved last week on service cap by spraying helium around the panel. |
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