Custom Equipment Created for Plant Testing

Scientists created special tools, called thermal dosimeters, for testing Metal Parts Treater temperatures in the Blue Grass main plant.

“This is the tool that lets us verify the material coming out of the Metal Parts Treaters has reached the Army’s standard for decontamination,” said Rachel Thurston, senior research scientist, Battelle Memorial Institute. “There was no equivalent product, so we had to develop one.”

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