Hanford: C Reactor
C Reactor Final Status Survey
November 1997
A final status survey for the C production reactor at Hanford was performed. The SCM was operated by a technician from the 105-C facility's HP staff upon completion of a 4-hour training course.
March 1997
A series of surveys was performed for the Large Scale Demonstration Project (LSDP) associated with the C Reactor, a plutonium production reactor at the Hanford Site. The surveys were performed for Bechtel Hanford, Inc. (BHI) that ran the LSDP for the DOE's Federal Energy Technology Center (FETC). The US Army Corps of Engineers scored the tests. Surveys were performed in two days onsite for beta and alpha contamination as well as external exposure rate, collimated high-energy (Cs-137) spectrometer measurements and X-ray (low-energy) measurements for transuranic nuclides. Alpha detection limits achieved in the survey proved the system achieved an order of magnitude improvement in detection limits over conventional measurement techniques. The tests have been documented in an ITSR report, which is available from FETC. Tests indicated that the SCM/SIMS systems were substantially less costly and faster than conventional survey methods.
Contacts:
Stephen Pulsford, BHI C Reactor D&D Project Manager (509) 373-1769
Mahmoud Haghighi BHI LSDP Health Physicist (509) 373-4950
