Maintenance experiences at analytical laboratory at the Tokai Reprocessing Plant

Suzuki, Hisanori ; Nagayama, Tetsuya; Horigome, Kazushi ; Ishibashi, Atsushi; Kitao, Takahiko ; Surugaya, Naoki 

The Tokai Reprocessing Plant (TRP) is developing the technology to recover uranium and plutonium from spent nuclear fuel. There is an analytical laboratory which was built in 1978, as one of the most important facilities for process and material control analyses at the TRP. Samples taken from each process are analyzed by various analytical methods using hot cells, glove boxes and hume-hoods. A large number of maintenance work have been so far done and different types of experience have been accumulated. This paper describes our achievements in the maintenance activities at the analytical laboratory at the TRP.