Dose reduction through robotics and automation of nuclear weapons dismantlement and storage procedures at the Department of Energy's Pantex Plant /
20,000 nuclear warheads have been earmarked for dismantlement
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | 20,000 nuclear warheads have been earmarked for dismantlement 2000. At that time, the cur-rent dismantlement and inventory activities as possible, thus reducing worker exposure. To al., 1993). To compensate for this excess, an estimated Amarillo, Texas. It is anticipated that the majority of and storage at the Department of Energy's Pantex Plant near automation for each task. Then a cost- benefit comparison was performed to determine which collective dose to workers, control these exposures, alternate approaches to developed. One attractive approach is to automate as many dismantlement and inventory procedures may need to be exposure within administrative and federal dose limits, To facilitate automation of dismantlement and storage now greatly exceeds any foreseeable future need (Quirck et procedures may not be adequate to control worker radiation procedures would be most cost-effective to automate. procedures, current procedures were investigated in terms of Soviet Union, the number of weapons in the nuclear stockpile these warheads will arrive at the Pantex facility by the year time to completion, ease of completion, and cost of With the end of the Cold War and subsequent break up of the |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Health Physics". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 61 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references: pages 45-46. |