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Tech/Engineering - Nuclear Eng/Sci | | French term or phrase: transfert aérien | This is from an article about the decommissioning and decontamination of a former nuclear site. The objectives include
"400 boîtes à gants ou équivalents boîtes à gants (transferts aériens, tuyauteries, cuves...)
...assainir et démanteler l'ensemble des équipements ayant contenu de la matière radioactive en vue de déclasser les bâtiments nucléaires en bâtiments conventionnels.
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| | | overhead transport/craneage | Explanation:
Presumably the equipment used for handling radioactive materials, though it would not have CONTAINED such materials, unlike pipework, tanks or glove boxes.
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Note added at 1 day5 hrs (2011-01-21 15:39:17 GMT)
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Glove boxes as in the things for handling stuff without actually touching it. You get them in hospitals: a box with glass walls in which there are holes to which "gloves" on the inside are attached; you put your arms in the "gloves" and handle what is in the box. For nuclear applications I imagine they are rather more complex, with thick walls, thick special-glass portholes, and probably robotic handlers or at least some mechanical system transferring hand and finger movements to the inside. |
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Explanation:
Presumably the equipment used for handling radioactive materials, though it would not have CONTAINED such materials, unlike pipework, tanks or glove boxes.
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Note added at 1 day5 hrs (2011-01-21 15:39:17 GMT)
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Glove boxes as in the things for handling stuff without actually touching it. You get them in hospitals: a box with glass walls in which there are holes to which "gloves" on the inside are attached; you put your arms in the "gloves" and handle what is in the box. For nuclear applications I imagine they are rather more complex, with thick walls, thick special-glass portholes, and probably robotic handlers or at least some mechanical system transferring hand and finger movements to the inside.
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