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Overwatch
Inc. has been directly involved in the sales, training
and emergency response to portal radiation detector alarms
since 2003. We are presently working with Waste
Management Corp. to continue building up their excellent
proactive, radiation detection program, through provision of
equipment and training.
Overwatch
is
now an agent for Reach & Grab Tongs (sometimes called
"hotsticks"). Contact us for full details.
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Tongs
are 1.5 meters in length. |
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The
'C' jaw opens to 117 mm; the 'A' jaw opens to 63 mm. |
Overwatch
is an agent for all of SAIC/Exploranium's
radiation detection equipment, from the smallest hand-held
meter to the largest portal detectors. Several models are
shown here but please contact us for full details.
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Model
GR-135 by SAIC/Exploranium |
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Model
AT-900 Advanced Technology System by SAIC/Exploranium
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Detector
for evaluating trucks and trailers.
Overwatch
Inc. has been directly involved in the sales, training
and emergency response to portal radiation detector alarms
since 2003. We work with large companies like Waste
Management Corp. to continue building up their excellent
proactive, radiation detection program, through provision of
equipment and training. Portal detectors are essential for all steel mills and increasingly so for other industries and waste handlers. Alarms
are literally ringing at a soaring number of Canadian
landfills as radioactive waste is detected in loads of trash. Larger waste transfer station customers, get more than 3 hits a day! More
than 75% of the alarms are triggered by small quantities of
short-lived radioactive substances of medical origin. Once the radionuclide is identified (we train you to do this), you know how to react. A common reaction will be to wait a certain number of days and then to landfill the no-longer-radioactive medical waste.
Several
radioactive devices requiring careful handling and special disposal have wound up in landfill sites or in the
hands of scrap metal dealers in the last five years. The
incidents highlight growing concern about the disposal of
potentially harmful nuclear materials, and raise questions
about gaps in the patchwork of systems at landfills across the
country that monitor and detect such waste from hospitals,
laboratories and industrial plants.
British
Columbia, Ontario and New Brunswick, for instance, lack
regulations requiring radiation-detection devices, while
Quebec has such requirements in place for all transfer stations and landfills. Although some landfill owners turn back trucks found to contain radioactive material, this is illegal. Allowing known dangerous goods (in this case unknown radioactive material) back on public roads is not permitted. Overwatch is available to locate, identify radioactive material, do disposals, and help arrange estopels
to transport etc. Call us first!
Overwatch
handles other manufacturers' equipment, such as the following:
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