Two Plum Brook employees use crane
Two Plum Brook Station employees use an overhead crane to lift a lead cask of low- level radioactive waste from Canal F. This was the first canal outside of the containment vessel. Canals G and H are visible behind the man standing on the bridge. The bridge was movable so technicians could continually work above the objects as the moved through the canal system. The canal connected to the hot laboratory, which was adjacent to the south side of the reactor building. Radioactive materials were moved under water with vehicles, or remotely controlled cranes, between heavily shielded walls in the hot handling room and hot dry storage areas. Then they could be transferred to the hot cells. An eighty-ton lead door separated the hot handling room from the controlled work area.
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Two Plum Brook employees use crane
Two Plum Brook Station employees use an overhead crane to lift a lead cask of low- level radioactive waste from Canal F. This was the first canal outside of the containment vessel. Canals G and H are visible behind the man standing on the bridge. The bridge was movable so technicians could continually work above the objects as the moved through the canal system. The canal connected to the hot laboratory, which was adjacent to the south side of the reactor building. Radioactive materials were moved under water with vehicles, or remotely controlled cranes, between heavily shielded walls in the hot handling room and hot dry storage areas. Then they could be transferred to the hot cells. An eighty-ton lead door separated the hot handling room from the controlled work area.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: CS-22209
Date: