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WIPP improves utility shaft safety, begins infrastructure project
Harrison Western Shaft Sinkers (HWSS), the company drilling a new utility shaft at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, has retained a safety culture expert following a near-miss accident in the shaft late last year. The safety expert will conduct monthly facilitated discussions with crews working on the shaft to reinforce expectations for identifying concerns regarding unsafe circumstances, according to a recent report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB).
H. Y. Khater, M. E. Sawan, R. R. Peterson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 1003-1007
Safety and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963373
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Hands-on maintenance activities outside the X-1 aluminum chamber may be allowed within a few hours following radiation (photoneutron) shots. Dose rates outside the chamber following moderate yield (200 MJ) shots are four orders of magnitude higher than those following radiation shots. In the mean time, dose rates following high yield (1000 MJ) shots are a factor of five higher than those following moderate yield shots. Hands-on maintenance is allowed outside the chamber and inside the water tank within 10 and 14 days following moderate and high yield shots, respectively. Access to the area outside the water filled tank is allowed after only a few hours following moderate and high yield shots.