TGEM WasteHandling
Portable Enclosures
The plan will be to work with the radioactive material in a portable enclosure which itself is in a fume hood. Possible portable enclosures are given below.
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All waste created when processing the Thorium rods into filings which will dope the resistive paste will be contained within a portable enclosure. The filings are removed from the enclosure after they have been absorbed by the uncured resistive paste. The uncured resistive paste is a very viscous glue similar to honey which hardens after curing at 150-165 Celsius. The filings will be mixed into the resistive paste inside the portable enclosure and then removed to be placed in an over.
We need a way to enclose the glue which has been doped with Thorium so it can be transported to the oven. Perhaps an oven bag used