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Deep Space: The new frontier of radiation controls
In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
A. S. Horen, T. Motyka, M. J. Montini, R. F. Hashinger
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 2 | March 1995 | Pages 104-109
doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11963814
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Tritium processing operations have been performed at the Savannah River Site since 1955. It was determined in the early 1980's that new tritium facilities were required in order to meet increasingly stringent safety and environmental requirements while maintaining productivity. Construction of a new tritium handling facility, the Replacement Tritium Facility (RTF), began in 1987. The RTF incorporates the latest technology and design philosophy to mitigate accident consequences, enhance operational safety, minimize tritium losses to the environment, and ensure material safeguards and security. The RTF is currently completing startup testing.
Tritium handling and processing operations are common to both national defense and fusion technology programs. Disseminating the lessons learned during the startup of a new tritium handling facility is important to the success of future tritium handling missions.