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Bob Oldrieve using manipulator arms

Bob Oldrieve using manipulator arms

Bob Oldrieve, a hot laboratory supervisor, uses manipulator arms to inspect radioactive materials within a hot cell. The pliers-type "hand" is visible inside the window. Operators became so skillful in operatin... More

Technicians manipulate shim safety control rod

Technicians manipulate shim safety control rod

Two technicians clad in anti-contamination clothing manipulate a shim safety control rod in a water canal in the hot laboratory. The twenty- five foot deep water provided shielding from the radiation, yet still... More

View from inside the hot laboratory

View from inside the hot laboratory

View from inside a hot laboratory looking out. The manipulator arm is in the foreground; the engineer behind the glass, Dan Gardner, is operating it. A fifty-two inch oil-filled glass window protected the opera... More

Hot laboratory safe work area. NASA public domain image colelction.

Hot laboratory safe work area. NASA public domain image colelction.

The hot laboratory's safe work area. Operators are using manipulator arms to work with irradiated experiments in the cells. The hot lab also contained an office, manipulator repair shop, and a decontamination r... More

View into hot laboratory. NASA public domain image colelction.

View into hot laboratory. NASA public domain image colelction.

View into a hot laboratory. Technician Dan Gardner examines irradiated materials using remotely controlled manipulator arms from behind protective walls and shielded windows...Image # : CS-22201

Technicians with cutie pie radiation detector

Technicians with cutie pie radiation detector

A technician emerges from the rear of a hot laboratory cell in full protective gear carrying a cutie pie radiation detector. Another technician wheels open the massive sixty-inch-thick concrete door plug.