Transit RWP's

[Dave Warren]

Have most of you used transit RWP's or is this a regional thing?
I have never worked this far toward the eastern seaboard and this seems to be popular in this area.

What I mean is an RWP that is used solely to traverse from the control point to a specific destination, like the drywell or the refuel floor.
No work gets done on his RWP, it is just used for traveling from Point A to Point B.

Tell me your thoughts and which plant you are referring to.

[Starkist]

We use them at my plant. Region 4 if that matters

[RDTroja]

I have worked the East Coast most of my career and I have never seen or heard of one.

[Dave Warren]

Troja,
        I have never heard of them either and I was quite surprised that they used them. Just wanted to check. Thanks.

[Rennhack]

It's all about assigning dose to the job.  It cost contractors ($$) when they spend dose now, so they do everything they can to reduce the amount spent on their RWP.

[Dave Warren]

I knew the reason and I understand it, kinda.
How much dose can you really separate going from the control point to the drywell?
I can understand it all but it seems like a nightmare logistically when you have to enter on the transit RWP, log off the RWP, log on the drywell RWP, log off the drywell RWP, log on the transit RWP, log off the transit RWP and you leave.
Put em' on the drywell RWP and have them check in with the rover in the drywell. DONE.

[Rennhack]

I knew the reason and I understand it, kinda.
How much dose can you really separate going from the control point to the drywell?
I can understand it all but it seems like a nightmare logistically when you have to enter on the transit RWP, log off the RWP, log on the drywell RWP, log off the drywell RWP, log on the transit RWP, log off the transit RWP and you leave.
Put em' on the drywell RWP and have them check in with the rover in the drywell. DONE.

What you are describing is the difference between common sense, and a board room fill of pencil necks trying to please another board room of pencil necks..

[spentfuel]

Have most of you used transit RWP's or is this a regional thing?
I have never worked this far toward the eastern seaboard and this seems to be popular in this area.

What I mean is an RWP that is used solely to traverse from the control point to a specific destination, like the drywell or the refuel floor.
No work gets done on his RWP, it is just used for traveling from Point A to Point B.

Tell me your thoughts and which plant you are referring to.

Kinda  

I have seen something Kinda like transit RWP's at some duke plants.  They used a work order task when you log onto a RWP and some work order tasks are "for initial set up and transport of materials" for example.  Then when you enter the actual work area you log onto  a different work order task which may contain different dress or other requirements.

It can be an effective tool to help refine dose estimates if you split the job into several elements it makes it easier to critique your dose estimates especially for jobs where estimates have been to high or to low historically.

The other way I have seen this is to enter the RCA on a generic RWP then go do a pre job with RP and then change room, then transit to the work area for example containment and then log onto the actual work RWP.  Again a method to track actual work time in the area of exposure and filter out the other hours spent setting up or briefing which help give a better representation of actual dose per work hour spent at the job site

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