Product category:
Gas, Chemical, Radiation and Magnetic Sensors
News Release from: AM Sensors | Subject: Portable tritium samplers
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 11 September 2003
Tritium samplers check power plant
radiation
Somerset-based AM Sensors has seen increased demand for its portable tritium samplers over the summer months, to meet the requirements of power plant shutdown maintenance work in particular.
Somerset-based AM Sensors has seen increased demand for its portable tritium samplers over the summer months, to meet the requirements of power plant shutdown maintenance work in particular Access to any potentially contaminated area for maintenance during a shutdown is strictly monitored, particularly by "first-hand" monitoring for traces of airborne tritium
AM Sensors has developed a portable sampler kit, which can be used alongside the maintenance workforce, sampling the air in their environment.
The air is sampled and passed through a bubbler system into a solution that traps the tritium particles that are normally carried in moisture vapour.
Typically the chemist monitoring the maintenance crew samples the liquid in the trap every half hour, to determine the exposure level, which is added to their radiation records.
• AM Sensors: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Engineeringtalk email newsletter
• Engineeringtalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
