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Questions or comments, call or email. Dewey 314-225-1061 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rolph, James Thomas Jr Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 4:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Powernet: Who performs the calibration/repair of RP Instruments at your site? EXTERNAL SENDER. Do not click on links or open attachments that are not expected and do not give out User IDs or passwords. ________________________________ We would appreciate any feedback we may get on this subject. 1. How does your site handle the repair and calibration of your portable and non-portable RP equipment? RP Department with Instrument and Controls personnel providing support. In rare cases will call in factory support. For some specialized equipment, it will be sent off site or to the factory. a. Performed by your site, This is most common solution. b. by a fleet calibration facility, or Nope. Not a fleet. c. sent offsite to a calibration service provider. This would be done for things like the mass flow controller for environmental air samplers. When these things fry, they go back to the manufacturer. Also things like the Transfer Standards. 2. Has your site "outsourced" your RP instrumentation repair and calibration? Neutron survey instruments and neutron sensitive electronic dosimeters are sent to a vendor for calibration due to lack of an appropriate neutron source on site. a. If you had, did you find that the costs were higher or lower than originally expected. For the neutron sensitive source, the cost evaluation showed a 20 year payback, so the choice was to not purchase a neutron source and ship the neutron instruments off site. b. Is, what do you contribute that to? Not applicable. c. If you had the chance to make that decision again what would you do? Not applicable. 3. What do you see as the benefits of the why your site handles RP Instrumentation Calibrations. Similar to others, "we have the skin in the game". If your site has performed any studies and you are willing to share them, will you send me a copy. We did not do a "formal" study on the neutron instrument calibrations, it was a "napkin" calc. Have a great weekend everyone and thank you for your time? Best regards, Jim Rolph, CHP RP Technical Support Superintendent (423) 843-8115- Office (423) 593-0247- Cell The information contained in this message may be privileged and/or confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Note that any views or opinions presented in this message are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ameren. All e-mails are subject to monitoring and archival. Finally, the recipient should check this message and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Ameren accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. If you have received this in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to the message and deleting the material from any computer. Ameren Corporation
