Is It Hot Enough For You???

[caveman]

Originally Posted by Trip

I have had to wear 4 pairs of booties at once before when doing the motor walk downs. We ran into the can, inspected two motors, removed one set of booties before exiting the can. Ran into the can in another spot, inspected another motor, removed another bootie. Did that one more time and the last pair was removed when we left the radiological controlled area. Same goes for gloves, we have to wear additional pairs depending on the work we are doing.

You are also not allowed to have any food or drink in the RCA, so there is no hydrating til you are done working. You have to hydrate before you enter.

The hottest suit in the plant is the suit people like Caveman have to wear to rack breakers in and out. They have to wear forced air systems with them if they are in them for extended periods of time.

Ah yes, gotta love the drywell entry teams when they are making sure that we have purged the Nitrogen out of it and you have to go in with double PC's and on a SCBA respirator. Thats double AWESOME. not to mention when you go in for 2 hour long surveillances and you are in pc's with extra gloves to protect yourself from steam temps.

I had to go into our Feedpump room and close an instrument valve that had a busted line spewing 500° steam with a proximity suit. Looks like the fire suits that oil drillers where to put out the oil fires.

Then the suit that Trip is talkin bout (45 cal) is a bitch in this weather. Gotta wear for flash protection so we don't get all toastie if the break decides it wants not cooperate. It can get upwards of 125° in that damn thing and look like Darth Vader, completely covered and very HOT.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by caveman

Ah yes, gotta love the drywell entry teams when they are making sure that we have purged the Nitrogen out of it and you have to go in with double PC's and on a SCBA respirator. Thats double AWESOME. not to mention when you go in for 2 hour long surveillances and you are in pc's with extra gloves to protect yourself from steam temps.

I had to go into our Feedpump room and close an instrument valve that had a busted line spewing 500° steam with a proximity suit. Looks like the fire suits that oil drillers where to put out the oil fires.

Then the suit that Trip is talkin bout (45 cal) is a bitch in this weather. Gotta wear for flash protection so we don't get all toastie if the break decides it wants not cooperate. It can get upwards of 125° in that damn thing and look like Darth Vader, completely covered and very HOT.

Yeah I am damn glad I am not one of you guys. I couldn't do that shit all the time. Back when I had the motor program, I chased the Radcon guys into the can as soon as we were allowed to go in for outages. We had to do inspections with the RCP motors still running. So I was literally one of the first people in the can. It was only an hour job, but I hated every minute of doing it and dreaded it every time I had to do it. We have 4 motors, I only made it to 3 the first time I did it. I was forced out because of heat exhaustion. Had to have another engineer finish the inspection for me.