I'm new here, Recently assigned lubrication at a nuclear plant.

I'm learning a LOT, been reading here, Took Oil Analyisis I and taking II soon.

You all seem like a very helpful bunchof foklks, I hope one day I can learn enough to contribute.

I need help. We have to jump through some very time consuming and tedious hoops to send oil samples from our Auxilliary and containment building off site.

If I could find a lab that can accepot trans uranics, life gets simpler and I get my samples out faster.

So far, the only one I have found is PdMA

Any others?

Thanks

Robert

A common problem for us in the Nuke industry. What I've found over the years is that 80-90% of the "radioactive" oil samples I deal with are actually clean, it's the bottles that are contaminated!!! This comes from handling during the sample PM such as gloves that are kept in the RCA and worn to sample oil from a machine. I've got a good relationship with my Chemistry guys who do the screening and they call me and with my input change the sample volume to a clean bottle and recount. I've reduced my radioactive handling fees from over 2K/year to about $600.00. Drop me a line if you need any additional input.

Contact bbroaddus@analystsinc.com

...for starters.

Got it.

Worked with Chemistry and figured out that we never have trans-uranics afterall.

A small change in methodology and off we go.

Dose rate is taken to correlate to a specrtum and under a certain value the regular lab gets them.

Analysts has the same limits as our in house, thanks though.

R

If your still looking for a lab, we use Herguth.
stay safe;
paulB