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Nuclear
Waste Screening Using the AXIS-3D® Industrial Scanner The Problem Amersham Plc is one of the world’s leading suppliers of nuclear medicines and image enhancing materials for use in medical treatment and diagnostic procedures. In disposing of their own and customer’s waste, Amersham wishes to meet and often to exceed the strict regulatory requirements for disposal of the potentially hazardous materials through their waste and decommissioning department. For their low level radioactive contaminated materials the normal methods of disposal require that a range of non-compliant items (such as sharps, heavy metals, fluids, etc) are identified and separated from their waste material and treated separately. The comprehensive screening required to identify the possible presence of non-compliant items within waste is a critical activity within the highly regulated process of radioactive waste disposal. The current method of manual screening each and every sack is an obvious and effective solution, but it is also costly and inefficient since the screener has to be able to identify even the smallest watch battery in a large sack of general waste. Coupled with the additional health risks to the operator (sacks may contain hidden sharps), Amersham required a simple method for remote screening of sealed waste bags to identify the presence and position of non-compliant items prior to their clearance for the next stage in the disposal process. Next>> |
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