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NPO Industry Newsletter

March 2013  
In This Issue
NPO Partners with IIS
Improving the Material Condition of Your Plant
Resolve® PTFE Filters for Radioactive Air Particulate Monitoring and Beyond
  
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2013 Upcoming Conferences

EPRI Scaffolding & Shielding Workshop
Charlotte, NC
June 10 - 14

Canberra Users' Group Meeting
Salt Lake City, UT
June 24 - 28

PWR RP/ALARA Summer Committee Meeting

NEI Radiation Protection Forum
San Antonio, TX
July 28 - 31

U.S. NRC Region III Summer RPM Meeting

Club des Radio-protectionnistes EDF
Avignon, France
September 17 - 18

Rohnert Park, CA
October 21 - 25

Preparing for an Outage?  
Check out NPO's most rapidly accessible products in our ordering guide. 

ORDERING GUIDE

Many of NPO's  products are stocked and ready for immediate shipment.
 
Please forward this ordering guide to your purchasing department so that ordering information can be included into your database for future reference.

For more information, contact:

United States:
Inside Sales Coordinator Rebecca Pazos

Europe:
Sales & Technical Engineer



NPO Partners with IIS    
We are pleased to announce that we have recently entered into a partnership with Innovative Industrial Solutions (IIS).  Under the terms of the cross distribution agreement that we have recently signed, IIS will represent NPO products across a portion of North America.  This agreement will give NPO broader sales coverage in the North American commercial nuclear power industry and should increase the level of service that all of our customers will receive.


Improving the Material Condition of Your Plant     

The disaster at Three Mile Island led to the Formation of INPO and evaluations of plants to promote the highest levels of safety and reliability.  "They show your gaps against the rest of the industry," says David Thompson, Manager Nuclear Fleet RP with Duke Energy.  "They help you raise the bar.  They make sure you have a clean house (it's called material condition of plant)...that it's well lit, well painted... a clean site versus a dirty or dark site... it all affects your work environment and nuclear safety."

READ MORE about Duke and Exelon's efforts to improve the material condition of their plants

Options for Dry Cask Storage Shielding
dry cask
Top left:  NEW dry cask rim cover for robotic welded lid 
Bottom left:  Complete cask cover with access for welding operations
Right: Transfer cask shield bell with hoisting rings

READ MORE on NPO Dry Cask Shielding 

Resolve PTFE Filters for Radioactive Air Particulate Monitoring and Beyond 
Three interdependent systems are necessary to accomplish the task of monitoring for the presence of radioactive particulates in air. These are an air sampling pump, filter media and radioactivity detection system. Just as the keystone is critical to proper performance of an archway, the filter is also important to the air monitoring process. For example, if the filter is too porous, the target particles may not be retained or may be trapped so deeply inside the filter medium that alpha measurements are adversely affected. Likewise, if the pore size is too small, airflow can be impeded resulting in the pump overheating or failure to draw sufficient air for the analysis.
 
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NPO is a subsidiary of Eichrom Technologies.  Together, we enable the efficient measurement and control of radioactive materials and processes through chemical separation technology, radiation shielding and contamination control. With comprehensive manufacturing, chemistry and radiochemistry laboratories, and an ISO 9001:2008 registered quality system, we offer an unparalleled level of service to professionals in nuclear power, government programs, academia and nuclear medicine.   Our customers benefit from access to our extensive product lines, which include chemical extraction and ion exchange resins, high-resolution alpha/beta filters, sampling smears, radiation shielding/containment systems, contamination control products, and NIOSH approved supplied air respirators. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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