UCX34# in pail 258(Vault lot 7C) has been repacked today. It is an investigation to find a possible leak source of radioactive Iodine in vault. The new pail number is 268. It is back to vault 7c . I wrote down the information in log book. The job is smooth today. I retrieved UCx 34 old pail and liner to TH. The liner from UCx#34 only has 3000 counts.  I bagged it. It could be used later. However, the pail has 500K counts contamination on bottom outside rim. It may accidently be slided out of plastic bag and touched the NHC table during the repackage. I bagged it and store it in silo area. When we do drum clean up, I will throw it in the drum.

Repack of 4 spent targets in TH and SHC.  SiC#37 to new pail249#. SiC#36 to new pail 250#. Nb#8 to new pail 247#, SiC#33 to new pail 248#.  They are all in mini storage. Also, UCx 31 are transferred to mini storage.  There are 5 spent targets in mini storage now.  

2021-05-20: 5 spent targets have been loaded into F308's. We transferred two more spent targets into mini storage this morning for next week loading.

On 2021- 04-20,  Tm4 is removed from Silo to SHC. The moving is smooth.

 A 55 Gal. drum was remotely lowered into the south hot cell. It was then filled with compressable waste. Then the drum was remotely removed from the south hot cell. The drum measured about 20microSv/hr upon removal from the south hot cell.

 Myself and Isaac removed the boot from the left hot manipulator.

- opened the hatch in the TH to get access to the top of the boot

- released the latch on the boot and loosened the boot from above

- closed TH hatch

- with the right manipulator we were able to detach the rest of boot

This test proved that we can remove a boot from the manipulator without having to enter into the hotcell.

Due to the physical restraints that the boot causes for the operator, we have decided to not reattach the boot with its current design.

A new design will be investigated to allow the boot to be fixed without twisting, which is the source of the problems.

Removed ITW HS and COIL flow rate monitors installed at the beginning of this year. They were installed on these two circuits for testing.They are broken during last run in ITW due to radioactive field.

Travis and I removed 4 shielding blocks located on top of pre-seperator  in TH. This is a job for ITE harp 9 re-installation after it  is repaired . The blocks move are successful.

Pail 237 only has 200u sv/hr field at 0.5 meter. On contact measurement: 0.9 to 1.6 m sv/hr.and less than 80 count contamination outside the pail.   It is moved to mini storage. We will transfer this pail to cyclotron vault and store it there later.

TM4 has been moved from TCS to SW silo. The move is fine.

TM4 has been moved from SHC to TCS. No target on module. The move is successful.

Frank and I removed TM2 from SMP to SHC. The move is successful.

Remotely remove TM2 from ITW to SHC. The move is good.  Shielding plug is put back to ITW.

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

TM2 with UCx#37 P2N target  was removed from ITE to NHC yesterday morning. The move is good.

Remotely remove TM4(Ta#63) from TCS to ITE. The move is smooth and successful.

Remotely remove TM4 (ta# 62) from SHC to TCS.  The moving is smooth.

Remotely remove tm4 from silo to shc. The moving is smooth.

On 2021-04-19, Frank and I remotely removed Tm3 from SHC to silo . The moving is successful.

Remotely removed Tm2 from silo to SHC. The moving is smooth.

TM4 was moved from the conditioning station to the East target station.