It's not like changing a broken window in your home or the windshield on your care. There's a work permit process that has to be followed with multiple disciplines that have to agree and sign off on every step of the process. Involved in this process is Facility Management, Health Physics, Facility Safety Management and Officers, Hazards Control, Facility Engineers and Maintenance, Criticality Safety Engineers, Sr. FMH's and RMA Supervisors, Hazard Waste Management and NNSA Facility Reps. and I'm sure I've missed someone. Needless to say this can be time consuming and take weeks to sometimes months as each member of this multi-disciplinary team works through the myriad of minute details involved in the operation. All of this is done to protect both worker and the public. All of this has to be done before any physical work on the box can begin. Then the SME's can proceed with the work by moving all the material and equipment out of that box line, thoroughly cleaning and whipping down the interior to reduce contamination levels, building a containment structure with it's own ventilation system to provide negative pressure to the structure before the box can be breached (called a hot break) and the actual window replaced. So when it was mentioned that it would take a week to replace the window that was an estimate on just the window replacement itself and not all the preliminary prep work that has to be accomplished before the Hot Break can actually be performed.
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It has been a month. Did the glove box get fixed or are the parts on back order from China?
It's not like changing a broken window in your home or the windshield on your care. There's a work permit process that has to be followed with multiple disciplines that have to agree and sign off on every step of the process. Involved in this process is Facility Management, Health Physics, Facility Safety Management and Officers, Hazards Control, Facility Engineers and Maintenance, Criticality Safety Engineers, Sr. FMH's and RMA Supervisors, Hazard Waste Management and NNSA Facility Reps. and I'm sure I've missed someone. Needless to say this can be time consuming and take weeks to sometimes months as each member of this multi-disciplinary team works through the myriad of minute details involved in the operation. All of this is done to protect both worker and the public. All of this has to be done before any physical work on the box can begin. Then the SME's can proceed with the work by moving all the material and equipment out of that box line, thoroughly cleaning and whipping down the interior to reduce contamination levels, building a containment structure with it's own ventilation system to provide negative pressure to the structure before the box can be breached (called a hot break) and the actual window replaced. So when it was mentioned that it would take a week to replace the window that was an estimate on just the window replacement itself and not all the preliminary prep work that has to be accomplished before the Hot Break can actually be performed.
So it's one week for the work and 1 year for the permits.
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