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We had a nuclear plant customer ask if we can make a smaller LED Stick Light for their ice condenser work they were performing during their outage.   The ice condenser is a large structure that is around the base of the reactor containment building. (Cutaway shown below.) It is divided into 24 bays. Each bay has two hinged inlet doors in the bottom of the wall between the ice condenser and the reactor containment building. Each bay contains 81 large baskets filled with ice (each 12 inches diameter x 48 feet tall) totaling about two million pounds of ice.  (Photo...

I have been working in the nuclear power industry for over 23 years. I have been involved in numerous projects from installing steam generator nozzle dams to robotic removal of highly radioactive waste from sites.  During these projects, lighting plays a critical role in the success of the project. Nuclear project factors effected by lighting performance: Personal Safety Keeping project dose low – ALARA Quality of work Human performance errors Maintain Foreign Material Exclusion (FME) Areas Video Inspections Time to complete tasks Fluorescent Stick Lights have been used in the nuclear power industry for decades. If you are an outage...