Home
/
Catalog
Designing a laboratory in a nuclear environment
Orano defines sites to meet requirements, sizes, constructs and commissions active laboratories hosting standard or advanced OTS analytical equipment.
-
- Clearly define needs in terms of flows, and the frequency and types of analyses required, with the operator
- Identify which analytical equipment must be adapted or modified to cover:
- analytical needs for radioactive solutions/effluents/sludges/solids
- the need for a guaranteed life for equipment in irradiating conditions
- the need to protect operators and facilities from irradiating and contaminating materials,
- the proper performance of procedures, quality targets, obligations defined by authorities and regulations.
- Analyse organisational and human factors to allow operators to work in suitable ergonomic, safe and secure conditions.
These phases must also take the following into consideration:
- potential integration in current facilities,
- the changing analytical needs of customers,
- changing analytical and measuring techniques.
-
Orano provides various types of services for laboratories:
- A package solution from designing the laboratory to commissioning,
- Support with defining needs (types of chambers, analytical equipment, sample management, etc.),
- Studies focusing on how to use OTS equipment in a nuclear context followed by the validation of a prototype at our facilities,
- Design studies for customised containment chambers (operability, maintenance, waste management, ventilation, etc.),
- Existing sizing verification studies for laboratories relating to new needs,
- Platforms, mock-ups and tools which are available or must be provided to train future facility operators.
- A customised service able to meet your needs and adapt to your requirements: from defining needs to providing a full solution
- An optimised design based on half a decade of experience in laboratory design and operations
- Experience based on projects completed for internal and external customers, in France and abroad
- Centres and infrastructures able to test prototypes in real conditions and validate/qualify inactive prototypes
-
- Operating nuclear laboratories (product quality, RCD and DEM, performance checks, environment, medical, asbestos)
- Shielded chambers with remote manipulators or tweezers, Glove Boxes, fume hoods
- Designed to ensure easy maintenance and operations for analytical equipment
- Samples can be taken and transferred from the process location to the analytical system
- Management of liquid and solid laboratory effluents
- Inline process monitoring (FXL, spectrophotometer, etc.)
- Multiple analytical techniques adapted to the nuclear sector for liquid and solid samples (ICP-MS, K-EDGE, FXL, Gamma spectrometry, SSA, furnaces, etc.)
- ALARA policy and consideration of ergonomic aspects when adapting analytical equipment for chambers
- Operator training
-
-
