Savannah River Site is a nuclear and radiological operating environment owned by the Department of Energy. It is operated by several companies but those companies share the services of Savannah River Nuclear Solutions LLC for an industrial hygiene instrumentation program.

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The current suite of instruments available at SRS runs the gamut of conventional instruments for chemical hazards (photoionization detectors for qualitative and quantitative gas and vapor concentrations, total/respirable/inhalable particle samplers for size sampling of dusts, pumps and calibration devices) and physical hazards (noise dosimeters and sound level meters, non-ionizing radiation detectors, light meters, temperature and humidity). More diagnostic equipment such as portable GCs or FTIR are also accessible.

All operational areas of our facilities may be assessed for hazards, such that instrument use may occur (with proper controls and entry/exit screening protocols for radiological contamination) in both clean and contaminated facilities. Our principle radiological profiles are strontium and cesium, with other isotopes in play. We would anticipate both clean environment sampling as well as contaminated environments. If our radiological control posture indicated suspected or actual instrument contamination, we would not be able to return the device, but would operate it until failure or expired calibration, then dispose of it as waste. This rarely happens …of the 2500 or so instruments that have been in our inventory over the past 15 years, only 5 or so have been disposed of because of radiological contamination. Additionally, jobs requiring entry into a contaminated area are well planned, in advance, so only absolutely required equipment is ever taken into the area. (Typically, the planning group will seek out instruments that are close to retirement for these jobs whenever they are available.)