Inside the INL's Reduced Enrichment Research and Test Reactor (RERTR), workers can investigate and manipulate all kinds of radioactive materials.
To protect the workers, the materials are manipulated behind the windows in this picture, which are four feet thick. And rather than use their hands, the workers use the special remote-control arms, seen outside each of the windows, which allow them to pick up, cut, move, and examine the materials behind the window. They must get special training on using the remote-control arms.
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To protect the workers, the materials are manipulated behind the windows in this picture, which are four feet thick. And rather than use their hands, the workers use the special remote-control arms, seen outside each of the windows, which allow them to pick up, cut, move, and examine the materials behind the window. They must get special training on using the remote-control arms.
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- They all still scare me to death, I have worked inside one I have seen up close what they do in there and the way they handle that stuff, that is one job you can keep...... (Read the rest)
- Posted by: JimiB Posted on: 07/11/09 You are currently: a Guest | Log in | Terms of Use
Not sure about the "... world's first..." bit.
snberk341 | 07/10/09
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First or Last it doesn't Matter
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