Use of remote-controlled machinery to reduce worker radiation exposure

• Published in: Atomic energy (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 113; no. 5; pp. 357 - 362
• Main Authors: Volkov, V. G., Ivanov, O. P., Kolyadin, V. I., Lemus, A. V., Muzrukova, V. D., Pavlenko, V. I., Semenov, S. G., Smirnov, S. V., Stepanov, V. E., Fadin, S. Yu, Chesnokov, A. V., Shisha, A. D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01-03-2013; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aerosols; Analysis; Channels; Cutting; Decommissioned; Diagnostic systems; Hadrons; Heavy Ions; Human exposure; Industrial equipment; Machinery; Magneto-electric machines; Nuclear Chemistry; Nuclear Energy; Nuclear Physics; Nuclear power plants; Nuclear radiation; Packaging; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Radiation; Radioactive wastes; Reactors; Remote control; Research centers; Robotics; Safety management; Studies; Ventilation; Wastes; Storage Pool; Radioactive Contamination; Remote Diagnostics; National Research Center Kurchatov Institute; Equivalent Dose Rate
• ISSN: 1063-4258; 1573-8205
• DOI: 10.1007/s10512-013-9645-7

The results of using remote-controlled machinery in the disassembly of loop facilities of the MR research reactor, which was decommissioned at the National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, are presented. The results of an examination of the loop channels of the reactor and the handling of high-level wastes during extraction, fragmentation and packaging are presented. Methods of remote diagnostics for measuring the activity distribution along a channel are proposed. Means for cutting channels and methods of lowering worker dose loads are presented.