Remote glovebox size reduction in glovebox dismantling facility

Kitamura, Akihiro   ; Watahiki, Masatoshi ; Kashiro, Kashio

Glovebox dismantling facility is a facility to dismantle gloveboxes and recover any residual nuclear fuel material from the gloveboxes. The facility possesses one robotic arm and six master slave manipulator arms to remotely size reduce contaminated gloveboxes. In this paper the facility is described and the size reduction activity procedures are introduced. Data obtained from one of the glovebox size reduction activities, which was done by both remote and manual size reduction methods, was analyzed and a comparison of these two methods is discussed.