Item identification system for material accountancy glove boxes.

摘要

The Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC) has installed an Item Identification System (IIS) or their Material Accountancy Glove Boxes (MAGB) in its Plutonium Fuel Production Facility at Tokai-Mura, Japan. PNC entered into an agreement with the US Department of Energy to have Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) develop the specialized hardware to be used in this application. LANL developed a MAGB Counter which is used to monitor glove boxes during interim inspections and physical inventories. The counter detects when a sample has been placed in a glove box and begins a measurement on the sample. During the measurement process, the counter will send a trigger signal to a Video Surveillance Unit which was developed by SNL. The signal will cause a video recording to be made of the identification number of the sample being measured. This paper discusses the installation and performance of the Item Identification System. 2 refs., 6 figs.