The Advanced Dose Exposure Planning Tool (ADEPTTM)—now available from Kinectrics—is PC based software that provides 3D virtual reality job simulations for radioactive environments around CANDU® reactor components. ADEPTTM allows users to walk through a virtual job plan, while receiving a live estimate of the dose for simulated workers.
The worker dose estimation is based on a predetermined radiation field around the reactor component and a user-defined job description. Radiation fields are based on the Outage Activity Transport Monitoring (OATM) data and selected shielding options for reactor components.
Key Features:
- Fully customizable real-time 3D virtual reality job simulation in a CANDU reactor environment
- Radiation field simulation based on actual Outage Activity Transport Monitoring Data
- Live display of whole body and extremity dose rate, as well as of doses of simulated workers throughout the execution of jobs in the radioactive environment
- Recording of radioactive environment job procedures and associated doses received by workers for future analysis
- Instant estimate of shielding option effects on the worker dose based on user-defined job descriptions
- Multiple dosimeters take the accuracy of effective worker dose estimations to a new level
- Comprehensive comparison options for individual and collective doses in various simulations, as well as analysis of simulation results and station data
Fields of Application
ADEPTTM was developed to effectively assist nuclear utility staff in the estimation of worker dose during maintenance and inspection activities around various CANDU reactor components, and to improve ALARA job planning. ADEPTTM can be used for:
- Planning of inspection and maintenance activities
- Planning and evaluation of radiation protection
- Procedural training for new and existing staff
- Pre-job briefings and post-job reviews for workers involved in specific tasks
- Benchmarking for Radiation Protection (RP) Managers
- Support for ALARA initiatives
Benefits
Visualizes work environments for staff in great detail
Provides options for elaborate planning to help reduce worker dose and save time on the critical path
Enables an opportunity to evaluate the impact of working in different configurations and scenarios
Demonstrates the effects of source term reduction
Offers shielding-based comparison of dose rates for radiation jobs
Details guidelines and data for pre-job briefings and post-job reviews of workers, as well as for training of new staff and contractors
Provides a benchmark for radiation environment jobs
