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Unknown: There we are. Alright.
Welcome, everyone to TC trs

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refresher training. It's been a
couple of years since this has

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been done. And these slides have
been updated for some new things

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that we do around the facility.
And you can see here the picture

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of the system that was taken
about 2004, shortly after

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delivery. And I'll show this
picture again, slides down the

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road, and we'll go over some of
the big pieces of it and call

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out what they are. So you'll be
able to recognize them next time

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you're in the punk house, doing
a walkthrough or for whatever

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reason. Alright, so we're going
to talk about the purpose of the

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TC trs at Le who the users are.
Again, we're going to call out

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the major components of the
system and show you where they

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are, how to recognize them.
We're going to talk about

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management and tracking of dt
operations, management of the T

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CTRs. And then we'll have a go
over not all the operations but

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some specific operations that
are important to us. And

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finally, at the end, we'll have
the impact of TC trs stops,

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right and in the context of a
spherical cryo DP shot day

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because that's what's most
important to us. Right, so the

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TC TRS is an acronym for target
chamber tritium recovery system.

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And even though it's named for
the target chamber, it provides

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services for all all throughout
the Omega facilities. And

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somebody's mic is open. Let's
get that. Let's see. Check your

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microphones and make sure
they're closed. Thank you.

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Right, the TC TRS is operated by
a cryo and trading facility

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staff and built by chemical
design in Lockport, New York and

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it's in the pumphouse room 150
B. Right, the purpose of the TC

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TRS is to absorb dt from omega
operations experiments and

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decontamination efforts, right
because this is a activity

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that's gotten away from us and
can't be returned to the DT

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inventory in the CryoEM trading
facility. So it's it's just

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waste contamination that we have
to capture and then deliver away

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from the facility. Right, we
have limits to how much activity

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we can release to the stack. 2.2
curious for you here, Walter and

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talk about this in his annual
redcon trading. Right. We're

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licensed by government
authorities for 2.2 curIs. And

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the TC trs, we recovered for
last year 2021. We pulled out

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9.7 curIs out of TC TRS and RSU
came over and picked it up and

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I'll show you a little bit more
down the slide deck here how

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that happens in the pump house.
Right. So we actually release

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about 10% of our annual limit
according to EPA monitor

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measurements, which is about you
know, 200 or 250 militaries per

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year. So the TC trs does its
work we wouldn't be able to

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operate here without it. Right
who needs to know about the T

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CTRs. We do right shot directors
TSOs ESTPs cart maintenance room

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and cryo and tritium facility
personnel. We are all

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responsible for using and
managing the TC trs.

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As you walk through the
pumphouse, you'll see these

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major components of the TC trs
right right in the middle of the

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system and labeled at the top
that is the low pressure

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receiver and this is just a 40
cubic foot hollow volume that is

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maintained at low pressure by
the blower which is in the

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square box at the bottom center
right. So the blower is like a

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two stage rotary vane pump that
pulls everything out of that low

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pressure receiver sends it out
to the pre heater and palladium

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reactor sections on the on the
on the right hand side there

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those are vessels and then the
that same flow is returned again

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to the low pressure receiver and
it just in a big loop circles

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round and round and you say
well, what good is that and well

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we'll go over that and In just a
minute. On the left side, we

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have the mole sieve bed dryers,
and the condensate vessel where

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activity is ultimately stored
and then removed during the

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regeneration process. Again,
just a closer look at that low

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pressure receiver in the middle
back of the system ti 8410 You

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see it there, it's just a hollow
vessel, the blower, which you

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can see in the picture there,
right I pull the top off the

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box, I can show you the blower
inside and everything that you

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pump or purge on omega has to
come through this blower and

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it's next down to one and a half
inch, you know schedule 45 And

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it goes out to the reactor and
it comes back to the ballast

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volume again and it just goes
round and round and round. And

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look let's go to the next slide.
And go over it in a little more

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detail. Here's another look at
the same operation. This is the

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the reactor loop which includes
again the ballast volume, the

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blower and the reactor 50 SCFM,
this gas just goes round and

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round. And any dt or hydrogen
products that come into the

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system like tritium, or methane
is burned into water, you can

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see the the balanced equation
for water at the bottom there

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hydrogen and oxygen are burned
into DTO in the presence of this

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palladium reactor. Right there's
308 pounds of palladium in

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there. And this palladium just
facilitates this, this reaction

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this burning of hydrogen
products into water the PLC

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controls flow through the system
via pressure limits, you can see

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the 40 cubic foot buffer tank is
connected to the PLC and a low

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pressure of minus 1.5 psi is
maintained in that bad balanced

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volume at all times. And when
flow comes in, right mass flow

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comes into the buffer tank and
equal quantity has to flow out

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to the dryer section you see at
the bottom right there. So I put

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at the top there q n equals Q
out because everything that

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comes in has to the equal
quantity goes out out the back

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to the dryer section, but also
everything that comes into this

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reactor section. Right The DT
and hydrogen products are all

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turned into water. And so in the
dryer section it'll all be

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trapped. And and let's go on to
that right here. Right this is

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where activity from omega is
ultimately traps DTO and water

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is reversibly absorbed on drier
media. And you can see what it

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looks like there next to the
penny we have 145 or 300 pounds

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of media inside each vessel
vessels about six feet tall 14

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inches wide. And these there are
three of these vessels on the

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system to maximize system
availability. So

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one is always in service for
absorbing water one is may or

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may not be in a saturated in in
the region state and another is

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in isn't a isn't a trim state
which is another part of the

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region operation right but these
regions occur concurrently with

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the with the main process which
helps us which maximizes the

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availability of the system.
Right since all the tritium the

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DTO is trapped on the Mole
cinfed dryers only clean dry gas

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is allowed to proceed to the
stack. And again emissions are

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read are limited to about 10% of
the annual limit in this way.

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Let's see. So limitations of the
TC trs, it's flow limited again

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I told you about the blower and
its neck down to 1.5 inch NPT

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pipe so there's a limit to how
much gas you can squeeze through

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that small diameter. We're water
load limited to about 20 kilos

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of water on a mold sieve bed
right that 300 pounds of mold

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sieve can only hold so much
water and then it's it's ready

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for regeneration. And it takes
about 40 or 50 days between

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regions to saturate that bet
most of the water comes from

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relative humidity, the almost
all of it as a matter of fact

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comes from relative humidity
that exists, you know, in, in

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the air that we use to purge
and, and pump volumes on omega.

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Only a tiny fraction of the
water is actually DTO or Tritiya

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did water and that's why the
system is so big because it's

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made really to handle water.
Each pump oh, let's talk about

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what have I got here omega
nitrogen purge. Right each pump

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has a one cubic foot per minute
nitrogen purge on it and this is

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important for the ESO. To know
this. The nitrogen purge from

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four pumps, if you happen to be
operating for pumps will slowly

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displace the oxygen in the TC
trs which is required for

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operations. Right, if I go back
to this slide, right at the top,

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you'll see up near the TC trs
blower, there's a oxygen monitor

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and an oxygen bleed on the
system to provide oxygen for

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this chemical reaction at all
times, and if you operate too

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many, or for all four omega
pumps to TC trs, the nitrogen

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will, you know, slowly reduce
this oxygen concentration over

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time and that can impact the
performance and efficiency of

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the system. And so that's why
the ESO that's why I call you up

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on the phone and ask you why are
you running four pumps and let's

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switch to three. That's the
normal arrangement. And, and

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that's how and that's how we
prefer to see it at all times.

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Keep in mind that small air
leaks into the T CTRs can

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saturate emulsive bed you know
earlier than we expect. And I'm

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just showing a little math at
the bottom there were a small

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leak of 6.5 cubic feet per
minute into tea CTRs in one day

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can add two kilos of water.
Right. And so that's 10% of the

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most of bed load per day with a
small leak like that. And so, we

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do monitor system oxygen and
flow rates on a day to day basis

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and and to alert us to to that
sort of failure mode when it

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happens. All right. The TC trs
should be connected at all

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times, right? The Omega pumps
should be connected to TCTs. If

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it's not everyone should know
about it and the system should

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have already been
decontaminated.

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Right? If omega is not
decontaminated and the T CTRs

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stops operating, we need to be
very careful. Alright, an

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example of this is if we have DT
operations on a Tuesday, and

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then we're still operating the
system on Wednesday. And then on

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Thursday, the TC trs stops
operating for some reason a

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failure occurs we need to be
very careful right because the

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target chamber may not have been
decontaminated and there might

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be quite a bit of activity
trapped on the cryo PUMP PUMP

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PUMP cryo pump number one as I
show in this schematic there. So

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every effort needs to be taken
in this scenario to keep the

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target chamber under vacuum and
keep the cryo pump cold. Right

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the ESO knows the contamination
status of the target chamber in

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the cryo pump. It's given on
their GUI at the White at their

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watch station. And so, if you
learn that the TC TRS is not

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operating this is this is the
first thing that you want to

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think of what is the
contamination status of omega

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and how should I and then you
can proceed from that from that

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status. All right. DT operations
and the TC trs are managed,

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right. So M M 66 Is the TC trs
usage policy and it's still

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still active, we still follow it
even though it hasn't been

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edited for quite some time.
We've added new services and we

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have a new tool called the DT
ops tracker that is used to help

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us Manage DT operations.
Alright, it's your

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responsibility as an ESO, or
CART maintenance from staff,

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Crown trading facility staff,
the shop director to review and

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understand the status of dt
operations when requesting,

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pumping or purging and deaqon
services and procedures have

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been updated to instruct you in
the use of this DTS tracker,

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which I'm going to show you a
little more detail right now, on

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the left side, there you can see
the user the TC trs usage policy

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matrix, right. And this is still
valid, we used to try to look at

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this, or we would look at this
when requesting and managing DT

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operations in the past. But that
whole matrix, you know, 100 or

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so possible combinations that
are given in that table has all

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been distilled into the DT apps
tracker. Hold on one second,

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please, folks, I'm just going to
respond to this to a message

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that I have here.

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I apologize. Alright, so but
this is just a memory tool, a

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logic tool, and it's only good.
You know, it's only abused to us

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if we if we use it with some
discipline, right. Again,

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procedures have been updated to
include instructions to

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communicate with the shot
director and update the status

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of facility operations. With
this, with this new tracker

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tool, let's talk about it some
more. Right, this is the viewer

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only version of the tracker,
which is available to all of us

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on the operations website. So
you can click on the link, and

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you should be able to add a
glance, see the TT operations

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tracker and the current status
of all of the manage to DT

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operations that we prove that
the TC trs supports. Right. The

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shot director has a version of
the DT ops tracker in in Prague

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panel at his desk and the shot
director is the only one who can

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change it. Right the operations
website is a viewer only version

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but the shot director is the
manager of dt operations. And so

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it is only through the shot
director that you will be able

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to change the status of, of this
of this table. Right that ops

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tracker communicates the current
status of dt operations to

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everyone who wants to know. And
here we see that the Omega

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target chamber purge has been
put in service, right with the

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green, the green color and the
inservice taxed. And when the

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shot director did that, the
other services all turned red

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and the text change to
prohibited right because it

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automatically obeys the logic
given in this table that we saw

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on the previous slide. The only
connection to system hardware

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that the tracker has is the TC
trs running bit and we see that

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with the green color and in the
button at the top left there it

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says TC trs running. Right this
is just a pressure transducer

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that sets a bit it senses low
pressure and tells and sets this

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color and running bit to let
everyone know that the system is

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still operating when the TC trs
blower stops and the system

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shuts down the pressure switch
trips, and the look of this

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tracker is going to change.
Right The status will turn red

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it'll say TC trs stop and I'll
show you what that looks like. A

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little bit further down the
slide deck here. I do have some

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ideas about adding. So a little
bit more features to the

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tractor. We might add in the
future if people like it or want

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it the contamination status of
the cryo pump and the target

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chamber and and maybe even the
connection status because the

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tracker does not tell you. Right
it tells you that the TC TRS is

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running but it doesn't tell you
if omega is connected to it.

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Alright, this begins specific
operations portion of the talk

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and we're going to talk about
specific operations and

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hopefully dispel some
misconceptions about what the TC

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TRS and how things happen around
the facility. Here we see the

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target chamber purge operation
indicated in the DT abstractor.

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And you can see in the
simplified schematic there that

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the recycle option, right, the
PLC controlled recycle option

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has been shut and the loop has
become a single pass loop or

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it's not a loop at all it's a
single pass straight out to the

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dryer section. Right and the
flow the flow is going to be

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about 50 s CFM for this
operation. And I do want to tell

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ESLs and shock directors right
that this DT operation ends when

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the purge to TC trs ends right
so it's two hours or four hours.

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And when you are finished with
that purge the TC TRS and you

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switch over to purging to stack,
right. That's not included in

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the DT operation and you can
update the tracker when the

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purge ends.

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Alright, so I want to look at
this p&i D schematic and talk

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about the target chamber purge
option a little bit more. There

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you can see the Omega pumps in
the picture. Right these green

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boxes on the left are the main
turbo cryo and auxiliary pump

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lines the large diameter I think
they're 1212 inch vacuum lines

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down there in the in the plenum
behind the car to the pump

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house. At the top left, you can
see that's the connection to

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stack and at the top right that
is the connection to TC trs.

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These blue boxes here are the
Omega pumps. And when we purge

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the target chamber you can see
the pumps are not involved,

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right? You just connect the
target chamber through that

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large diameter line. You bypass
the pumping package and connect

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directly to the low pressure
receiver on TC trs, so does the

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TC trs that provides suction for
this decon activity. And again,

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that is 50 cubic feet per
minute. Right. And so we'll do

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this for two hours or four
hours. Coincidentally, I believe

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this is this operation was
started this morning, and it's

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operating for four hours right
now. But when that four hour

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Purge is over, the purge will
switch to stack, right and the

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stack has its own blower and
provides its own suction. And

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that's how that will look when
the Decon activity is over. And

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the tracker has been updated
right this is not part of the

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target chamber purge activity
not part of the DT operation

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when you switch to the stack.
Right there's been some

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misunderstandings about that in
the past All right. So, here is

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a picture of a inch and a half
schedule 40 bellows line that

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has been subjected to too much
pressure as you can see and this

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is did not happen here to the TC
trs but is a picture I found

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what could happen if we don't
manage a pumping operations

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correctly on the system. Right
because when you pump right you

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can pump the stack right you can
pump the tea CTRs note that one

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pump is used for the target
chamber pump down in the past

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we've had the target chamber
pump down when we're add more

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than one pump and that results
in stuffing too much gas into

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the T CTRs too quickly and we
want to avoid you know blowing

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up this bellows on the outlet of
the of the TC trs blower because

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that is an expensive and
discipline difficult repair for

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us. And so when you do pump down
the target chamber to TC trs,

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you need to be careful that
you're only operating one pump

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and really you should only be
doing this if the target chamber

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has not been decontaminated
right otherwise you should be

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pumping it to stack right the
the normal path for pumping down

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the target chamber is to stack
because we presume or assume

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that it was decontaminated when
you vented it up in the first

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place. Okay, cart maintenance
room services in the cart

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maintenance room. We don't. We
have carts right with DT targets

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or carts that have spent, have
been shot and they're

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contaminated. And we provide
decon service for the cart

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maintenance room the TC trs
does, and they do that with a

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venting and pumping operation
into cart maintenance room, not

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a continuous purge, right.

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Room 157 and the TC trs
interconnect line. As you walk

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down the galley passageway you
will notice above your heads and

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to the left a little bit if
you're walking South a 200 foot,

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two inch stainless steel right
line which I've got a little red

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arrow on right, put it right
there. So this 200 foot run

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connects rule 157 to the low
pressure receiver on TC trs, and

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we use this for decontaminating
from time to time. The FTS or

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DTH PS the large glove boxes in
room 157, though that's somewhat

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rare. More commonly, it's used
for the happy glove box, which

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you see there in the middle of
the of the slide. And this is

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the location from which DT
targets ambient DT targets are

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delivered to omega. It's also a
place where an operator can

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mount DT filled glass targets.
And the suction from TC trs just

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provides a low pressure
environment on the glovebox

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there and keeps the activity
away from the operator. And this

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is a very common di t operation.
And you can see what that

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service looks like on the
tracker right I'm showing four

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operations simultaneously going
and you can see some of the

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other operations are prohibited
from taking place while the

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happy glove boxes in service.
Alright the cryo pump region is

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another important operation that
the TC trs supports right there

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are two cleanup systems for the
cryo pump region operation Omega

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pump one is usually the hot pump
it's the pump that we use when

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we shoot cryo or Ambien DT shots
right so that the same pump is

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always handling the activity and
and that pump is used in a

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limited way for for pumping air.
So a non DP shot days it's

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usually not in service, right
that pump gets isolated for

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region and then the the pumping
is turned off. Argon is float in

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to start warming up the pump and
activity is carried to the

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scrubber in mcop. Most of the
activity is absorbed in the

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scrubber in the top right but
then the scrubber passes its

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effluent off to TC trs after
that and the TC trs polishes up

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any activity that was not
captured in the laptop scrubber

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and the ESO and Kryon tritium
facility staff work together on

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this operation and so it has to
be carefully coordinated and

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handled it's this is a this is a
you know one of our higher

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activity operations. And I tried
to show that with this graphic

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where you know most of the
activity is connected here in

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the scrubber and then the TC trs
provides the polishing service

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the activity is removed at a
later time in a region process

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right here's another look at it
there's discover on the cost of

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the pump regen effluent comes
through these nickel bed and the

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circ iron bed seen here in the
bottom of the system. Right

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activity from the target chamber
goes on the pump down through

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the scrubber in the cob and then
on to

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TC trs. Periodic Maintenance
You've heard about TC trs most

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of bed regions, it's the last
stop for contaminated waste

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before being removed from

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from the laboratory. Right this
block diagram highlights the

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path activity takes. And the
activity is diverted from the

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most of dryers we talked about.
This most of bed dryer shown in

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the picture again, there's three
of these on the TC trs skid, and

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300 pounds of Multivan inside
and they're wrapped with heaters

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and cladding. Right so when the
time comes, the saturated bed

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can be heated, and that we flow
nitrogen through it. And the

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effluent from from the most of
bed dryer goes through a

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condenser. And all the water
that's been absorbed there,

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including the DTO will end up in
a condensate vessel and trapped

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in this way. And then the
effluent, right, the clean

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effluent just pass through
another dryer. And then on to

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stack after that, right we're
flowing clean, dry nitrogen the

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stack in the region process
because all the water it gets

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condensed or trapped on the
second dryer. Okay. Let me

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check. Okay. Let's talk about
what happens and the response to

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TC trs stops. We'll talk about
it in the context of cryo DT

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operations. And the short story
here is that omega pumps are

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switched to stack automatically,
except for the cryo line pump.

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And the ESO will be alerted to
this condition by the GUI at the

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top so watch station. Right if
the shop director has the DT ops

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tracker popped up on his screen,
he'll also be alerted to this

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condition by the change in color
on the operations tracker.

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Right. Services will be
automatically isolated on the

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cryo line alarms messages will
go out to cry on tritium staff

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and everyone will know about
this condition pretty quickly.

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Here's what the Tracker will
look like at the shot director's

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desk. It'll also look like this
the viewer only version on the

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operations website. Right and so
the running bit has set the

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color to red and the states have
been changed to yellow to call

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attention to this. You know,
this a warning condition that

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the system is not operating all
of the states can still be

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changed and it works the same as
before because it's just a

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memory tool and takes no action.
It's only that the color is

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changed to alert everyone to
that something is wrong

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in law cov This is what a
simplified schematic of the cryo

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line and you've got the carts
right in parking spaces or at

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the lower pylon handling DT cryo
carts right and we provide this

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roughing manifold and backing
manifold or connect to the cryo

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line and connected to TC trs in
this way. This is how things

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should look on a cryo DT shot
day. Right when in TC trs stops

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operating the cryo line will be
stopped and isolated. Right and

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so you can think about this.
There's no reason to panic right

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the targets in parking spaces
and at the lower pylon even will

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be alright for a time while this
pumping is not available.

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Because it'll just pump into
this closed manifold and until

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the pressure builds up in the
manifold which will take some

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time. We have some time to work
the problem and and hopefully

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recover vacuum get the T CTRs.
Running again and and move on

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with with operations. But that's
the way things will go. When the

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system stops, that's what you
should expect to happen. Right

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stopping the T CTRs. requires
approval from from cryo and

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trading facility managers and
Omega managers This is the link

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to relevant TC trs operate
documentation like the usage

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policy and the cryo pump region
procedure and then a schematic

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of the again the the cryo pump
region setup with both the cops

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cover and the T CTRs more detail
that is the end of the

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slideshow. I'm going to