At DC Cook,
HPT/RPTs receive no extra pay for performing calibrations of installed RMS,
portable RP instrumentation or Rad shipments.
We have a three, ERO qualified (WHL-"Covered") RPTs, on shift 24/7, rotating
with Ops' crews.
One of these three HPTs/shift (designated as the Rad Protection Tech
Hello all,
At Cook, we, like a number of you I’m sure, have replaced nearly all of our
Power Block incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs with LED lights.
We are now working with a few vendors trying to navigate the waters of nuclear
safety and replace our incandescent bulbs in containment with
Hello all,
I have seen in a recent, related inquiry that a number of sites have an
"Clerk/Admin" as their Dosimetry Resource, as does DC Cook. Acknowledging that
"Issuing DLRs to workers" or "Performing Routine DLR Exchanges" are not tasks
contained in ACAD 93-008, I'd appreciate your response
DC Cook does not currently e-mail Form-5s to workers. We performed an initial
"what if?" look into it, passed it through our Legal folks, w/o issue, however
we are still using snail mail.
I'm sure most of us remember this question coming through PN around the first
of the year. If the original
Please find DC Cook's response in red far below.
Also, to relay the results of a similar set of questions I asked near the
beginning of the year, out of 12 sites that responded, all but two (Cook and
Ferm2) responded that MTI/I&C techs calibrated your installed RMS detectors.
Apparently it's a Mi
DC Cook has been adding peroxide to our cavities for many years. This has
improved our water clarity and eased our Rx Cavity decontamination efforts
after drain down.
During our past (and current) Baffle Bolt/Up-Flow mod work, we shoot to
maintain peroxide concentration around 4 ppm in the cavi
Hello all,
At DC Cook, Radiation Protection technicians have always performed calibrations
on our permanently-installed, plant (Westinghouse & Eberline) Radiation
Monitoring System.
I would appreciate your response to the two questions below:
1.)Who performs the detector calibrations on you
Just as a general comment came to mind... at our site you might hear someone
making a reference to "preserving their 401K" when they'd ask each other for a
peer check... or explain why you made a trip back through the building to
verify (WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY!) the condition of a posting, a ro
