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.

Looks like the UC target s #1 and #2 were found invalidprize winners for their all inclusive trip to Chalk River and have thus been placed back in to storage for the next draw. In their place a pair of lucky Ta targets won, seems to be Ta lucky draw this year, Ta#28 and #29 have been placed in the mini storage for several fabulous day and wondrous nights, before being whisked away on their all inclusive one way trip to Chalk River. See attachments for the status of both vaults.

Hi Remote Handling,

The guage on the IMC circuit in the Target Hall is reading atmosphere, and the bellows is currently relaxed (i.e. expanded), whereas it should be reading about -20inHg and the bellows should be contracted (i.e. compressed).

I've attached a photo of what the guage and fittings should look like when pumped down to -30inHg.

Either the IMC circuit has been vented, disturbed, or it has some kind of leak.  When I was in the Target Hall this morning, I saw the gauge bent around the railing at an awkward angle with a pretty severe bend in the copper line, it appeared to have been disturbed by the temporary glove box sitting at that level used by Rob Walker for nuclear ventilation work.

I will co-ordinate pump-down and leak check of the circuit, but the Conditioning Station cannot be used until this is repaired.

Cheers,

Grant

All targets in the mini storage have been moved to F-308s and those flasks have been moved over to rad waste. The transfer of target occurred on January 10th and the flasks were moved to rad waste on January 11th.  Contamination was found on the bottoms of some of the pails and was removed, some of the contamination was difficult but not impossible to remove from the pail bottoms.

I had changed all old induction coils for flow sensors in ITE .I checked all ITE water signals on control boards in electrical room.They are all very stable and constant.All ITE inductions coils work fine now.

I pumped down conditioning station IMC today. The inside bellow pressure is -20 psi on the gauge.Visually checked the bellow before and after pump.The bellow is in retracted condition now.

I did a leak check on conditioning station vacuum system today.The vacuum system had been roughed over night . This morning before the leak check,the convectron gauge  reading on emittance box is 20m torr which is reasonable. I hooked the  leak detector to system (without turbo pump  on) . The leak detector showed base LR 6.3xE-8 atm.cc/sec. At this base LR, I found 2 leaks up to low E -6range on that cross tube flange to small turbo pump, and the cross tube flange to vessel. I found some of the bolts on the flanges could be tightened more ½ to ¾ turn without difficulty. I checked all the fasteners on the box, cross tube, and turbo pump, tightened some of them. By doing it, the base leak rate dropped to 3.0x E-8 atm,cc/sec, base pressure still 0.0XE-4 torr. I sprayed helium again, the response I found before now disappeared. I waited for about 1hour, and let the leak detector base leak rate dropped to 1.3 xE-8 atm.cc/sec, and base pressure still at 0.0xE-4 torr. At the same time, i only use leak detector as back up pump for whole sysytem and shut off the valve to the scroll pump.By doing this , the leak detector is much stable on the base leak rate. With the help of Bevan, i sprayed the helium to all the vacuum  equipments again.This time,no any tiny response has been found on leak detector.The leak rate stayed at 1.2x E-8atm.cc/sec, and no change on pressure also. I checked helium bubble several times during the spray. The conditioning station vacuum system is leak tight.

SiC #26 was moved from the south hot cell into storage today. The target was is in pail # 94 and was placed in slot 1B in the storage vault. The fields of the pail at the hot cell were 118mSv/hr upon pail been removed from the hot cell. Attached is the current status of the storage vault.

Five targets were moved to the mini storage today in preparation for transfer of the targets to the F308s later next week. The moves went well. See the attached files for the vault and mini storage details.

5 shielding blocks have  been transferred from  ITW to ITE. ITE ventilation is opened, and ITW closed. All ITE water  signals have been checked for frequency and strength.They are all good. ITE is ready for taking proton beam.

The Nb#6 target has been moved from the south hot cell into storage. It was place in pail #95 and is in slot 5C of the vault. See attached file for more details.

and set up ventilation for ITW. ITW is ready for taking proton beam now. All water interlock checks for ITW are done. The ITW water signals strength and frequency had been checked from electrical room, and everything is good.

SiC#27 has been moved from the south hot cell to the spent target vault. Target was placed in pail #96, placed in slot 3A, the fields at the hot cell were 178mSv/hr. For the latest on the vault see attached document.

In the AM today David and I used the crane to raise the ground plate sheet metal into place. This afternoon when I attempted to return the crane to its usual place I discovered that the crane no longer worked. Upon further inspection it appears that the PLC has lost power. I will follow up on this Monday morning. The crane is not supporting any load at this point.

Bevan Moss wrote:

In the AM today David and I used the crane to raise the ground plate sheet metal into place. This afternoon when I attempted to return the crane to its usual place I discovered that the crane no longer worked. Upon further inspection it appears that the PLC has lost power. I will follow up on this Monday morning. The crane is not supporting any load at this point.

 Turns out I am just not very observant. David had turned the main break to the crane off as a result when he turned it back on this morning the crane magically started working again.

Today (Wednesday July 18th) at around 4:15 pm I was taking a small tour group from VECC into the Target Hall. In the process of discussing the mechanical design of the Target Modules and South Hot Cell turntable I inadvertently lifted the Aluminum Hatch Cover of the Hot Cell about 2 inches in an effort to explain something. This tripped the ventilation alarm before I realized what I was doing. I evacuated the visitors from the Target Hall, checked booties and gloves at the check station before having the visitors step over the boot box. I called operations and let them know what I had done. The Target Hall was locked out and is awaiting a survey for the morning of July 19th before work can proceed.

Today (Wednesday July 18th) at around 4:15 pm I was taking a small tour group from VECC into the Target Hall. In the process of discussing the mechanical design of the Target Modules and South Hot Cell turntable I inadvertently lifted the Aluminum Hatch Cover of the Hot Cell about 2 inches in an effort to explain something. This tripped the ventilation alarm before I realized what I was doing. I evacuated the visitors from the Target Hall, checked booties and gloves at the check station before having the visitors step over the boot box. I called operations and let them know what I had done. The Target Hall was locked out and is awaiting a survey for the morning of July 19th before work can proceed.

Ta#38 was moved from the south Hot Cell to the Spent Target Vault. Target is in pail #97, and was placed into tray 6 slot B of the vault. Field around the pail upon removal from the Hot Cell were 226mSv/hr at about 1/2 metre. See attached PDF for vault details.

 I replaced ITW TP4S today as we scheduled. The working area is swiped and air sampled .Everything is fine.

The Series # of the old pump is 200927, and the new one is 600080. The E-fault 6081 which is related to the job will be closed.

Prob guys replaced broken air lines on ITW HARP 5B Cylinder.Several shielding blocks had been moved out to make the cylinder accessible. After the replacement,the HARP5B works fine.All shield blocks had been moved back to original position. The job is done.