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My name is Doug and I’m
currently an operations of

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nuclear fuel handler. Currently
involved in the M-290 program

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the type-Y(sp) canister
buffering process for the

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Enterprise fuel. The
interaction that we’ve had,

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that we’ve seen in the
engineering side and the

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operations side is something
that I haven’t ever witnessed

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here before at NRF.
Engineering involved operations

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very early on in the process
of the M-290 uh program. We got

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involved in helping develop
the equipment and procedures

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and they brought in the lifting
and handling personnel,

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the crane operators, the
nuclear fuel handlers, and

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it was this interaction that I
think helped develop the

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program and the success that we
are today. A lot of the

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equipment and tools that we use
here in the M-290 program are

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large and rather heavy.
One of the things that we use

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is what’s called the millennium
torque tool. It’s a pneumatic

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torque gun that we use to work
on the lift plate adapter on

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the M-290 and this aids in us
lifting it off of the rail car.

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This torque gun that we have to
use weighs 30 pounds.

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It’s heavy and awkward to use.
One of the developments that we

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came up with between
engineering and operations was

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the use of a fully articulating
arm that has a

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zero gravity reel suspended
from it. And it makes the tool

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virtually weightless and cuts
down on the fatigue of the

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nuclear worker. As we started
the process, there were little

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things that we changed with the
procedures and the equipment.

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Things to make it more
streamlined for us. But really

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what we got from our
engineering staff was

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top quality. We have strong
innovative culture on our team.

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Many of us come from different
careers and backgrounds, each

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one brings a different quality
and skill. This was used in the

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startup process to create the
highly productive program that

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we are today.