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NDTReWS coating the backing metal with a thin layer of tin and then casting the white metal on top of the tin coating. Mather and Platt use split bearings with bore sizes of between 50 and 120 mm and with a white metal thickness ranging from 5-10 mm. MatEval designed a probe arrangement which allows examination of bearings throughout the ranges of bore diameter and white metal thickness using a single ultrasonic probe. Replaceable shoes were used, shaped to match the individual bore curvatures, with a twin crystal focussed probe.
MatEval ND T Company L td, 1 Belvedere Road, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, England. Scope for e x p o r t
Orders for £90 000 worth of electronic test instruments have been received by Gould Advance in the UK from Kikusui Electronics and NF Circuit Design Block in Japan. The British company - part of Gould Instruments & Electronics Europe - will be supplying its OS 3000 dual-trace 40 MHz oscilloscope and the OS 4000 digital storage oscilloscope. Both instruments will be relabelled for the Japanese and supplied as 'own brand' products by Kikusui and NF.
Isotope scanner to monitor nuclear fuel workers Whole-body scanning of workers every three months is to be introduced at the Seascale works of British Nuclear Fuels to check for the uptake of radioactive material. The scanning will be done using a whole-body isotope tomoscanner unit which has been specially designed and built by J & P Engineering - the company that launched the world's first radioisotope scanner earlier this year (see NDT international news, April 1977, p 101). Using the scanner will provide a faster and more effective means of detecting radiation changes than normal dosimetry techniques. The whole body monitor unit (Fig. 10) will be installed at BNF's works in a room having 152 mm thick steel walls (which will reduce background radio-
activity to below normal levels). The unit itself has eight sodium iodide scintillation detectors, four above and four below the body, together with two other special detectors which can detect radiation from plutonium and actinides (which are processed at the Seascale ptant). Each detector can be individually adjusted, to obtain the best response during scanning. An additional feature is the ability to scan one of the detectors above the bed either across the body or down the length of the body, so that a profile of the distribution of activity across or down the body can be obtained.
J & P Engineering (Reading) Ltd, Portman House, Cardiff Road, Reading, Berks, England,
Gould Advance Limited, Roebuck Road, Hainault, Essex, England. I n d u s t r y ' s choice o f ultrasonic equipment Ultrasonic flaw detectors, thickness gauges, probes and accessories are all covered in a new catalogue from Baugh and Weedon. Produced as a wallchart for easy reference, the catalogue includes a probe selector table giving details of the operating frequency, beam angle, crystal type and size and dimensions of the entire range manufactured by the company. Copies of the new wallchart -'Ultrasonics for Industry' are available free from Baugh and Weedon Limited,
Widemarsh Street, Hereford HR4 9EZ, England.
NDT INTERNATIONAL. AUGUST 1977
Fig. 10 Whole-body radioisotopescanningwill be carried out at British Nuclear Fuels' Seascale works usingthis specially designedtomoscanner unit
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MatEval ND T Company L td, 1 Belvedere Road, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, England. Scope for e x p o r t
Orders for £90 000 worth of electronic test instruments have been received by Gould Advance in the UK from Kikusui Electronics and NF Circuit Design Block in Japan. The British company - part of Gould Instruments & Electronics Europe - will be supplying its OS 3000 dual-trace 40 MHz oscilloscope and the OS 4000 digital storage oscilloscope. Both instruments will be relabelled for the Japanese and supplied as 'own brand' products by Kikusui and NF.
Isotope scanner to monitor nuclear fuel workers Whole-body scanning of workers every three months is to be introduced at the Seascale works of British Nuclear Fuels to check for the uptake of radioactive material. The scanning will be done using a whole-body isotope tomoscanner unit which has been specially designed and built by J & P Engineering - the company that launched the world's first radioisotope scanner earlier this year (see NDT international news, April 1977, p 101). Using the scanner will provide a faster and more effective means of detecting radiation changes than normal dosimetry techniques. The whole body monitor unit (Fig. 10) will be installed at BNF's works in a room having 152 mm thick steel walls (which will reduce background radio-
activity to below normal levels). The unit itself has eight sodium iodide scintillation detectors, four above and four below the body, together with two other special detectors which can detect radiation from plutonium and actinides (which are processed at the Seascale ptant). Each detector can be individually adjusted, to obtain the best response during scanning. An additional feature is the ability to scan one of the detectors above the bed either across the body or down the length of the body, so that a profile of the distribution of activity across or down the body can be obtained.
J & P Engineering (Reading) Ltd, Portman House, Cardiff Road, Reading, Berks, England,
Gould Advance Limited, Roebuck Road, Hainault, Essex, England. I n d u s t r y ' s choice o f ultrasonic equipment Ultrasonic flaw detectors, thickness gauges, probes and accessories are all covered in a new catalogue from Baugh and Weedon. Produced as a wallchart for easy reference, the catalogue includes a probe selector table giving details of the operating frequency, beam angle, crystal type and size and dimensions of the entire range manufactured by the company. Copies of the new wallchart -'Ultrasonics for Industry' are available free from Baugh and Weedon Limited,
Widemarsh Street, Hereford HR4 9EZ, England.
NDT INTERNATIONAL. AUGUST 1977
Fig. 10 Whole-body radioisotopescanningwill be carried out at British Nuclear Fuels' Seascale works usingthis specially designedtomoscanner unit
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