Condition Monitoring of Final Storage for Radioactive Waste - Sponsored Whitepaper

Delphin TopMessage Modular Data Acquisition Systems

CAS DataLoggers recently provided the data acquisition and control solution for a company with a government contract to plan, build, test and operate the final storage for radioactive waste material. The company had recently built a new final storage underground in salt-rich ground and first needed to perform condition monitoring prior to testing and running such an installation. Technicians needed to measure many different signals onsite including fluid pressure, air pressure, void pressure, temperatures, flow, and voltage. Naturally, this material needed to be stored at the most demanding standards, and according to the sensitive nature of this application, the measurement data had to be kept under a heightened security level, meaning that no data was allowed to go outside of the company, although alarming still needed to be set up on mobile phones. All these complications required a custom two-part solution: all measurement and data acquisition had to be done using standalone operation underground, while visualization and messaging would be setup aboveground. The contractor began searching for a modular data acquisition system capable of high-speed measurement, standalone operation for extended periods underground, and powerful software that could develop a means to view data recorded underground from a remote surface location.