Count Room Specialist

Job Purpose

Operation , Calibration and Maintenance  of count room instruments and ensure quality control to provide safe and reliable analysis environment.

Key Activities, Responsibility & Accountability

Count Room Management.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:  

•    Operate High Purity Germanium (HPGe), Liquid Scintillation Counter (LSC), Low Level Alpha/Beta Counter to ensure high quality instrumentation. 

•    Calibrate High Purity Germanium (HPGe), Liquid Scintillation Counter (LSC), Low Level Alpha/Beta Counter to ensure high quality instrumentation. 

•    Preparation the calibration reports for count room instruments.

•    Maintenance of High Purity Germanium (HPGe), Liquid Scintillation Counter (LSC), Low Level Alpha/Beta Counter to ensure high quality instrumentation.

•    Operate and maintain radioactivity counting laboratory to provide safe and reliable analysis environment. 

•    Daily check of count room instruments to ensure instruments are ready to use.

•    Weekly quality check of count room instruments to ensure proper operability of instruments.

•    Procure the calibration sources for LSC/HPGe/ Low Level Alpha/Beta Counter.

•    Maintain the calibration sources for LSC/HPGe/ Low Level Alpha/Beta Counter.

•    Maintain the historical data base of sample results.

•    Maintain and perform configuration control of count room instruments.

•    Maintain the procedures for count room instruments operation and calibration and request procedure changes when required.

•    Perform refilling of liquid nitrogen for HPGe as per requirements to maintain operability of HPGe.

•    Perform replacement of P-10 gas cylinder for Low Level Alpha/Beta Counter as per requirements to maintain operability.

•    Maintain/upload count room instrument records in SAP.

•    Perform sample analysis for LRS releases.

•    Perform sample analysis for LRS Performance Test.

•    Perform sample analysis for gaseous releases from reactor containment building.

•    Perform sample analysis for evaluation of Personnel Contamination Event (PCE).

•    Perform sample analysis for weekly, Monthly and Quarterly samples to meet the ODCM requirements.

•    Perform sample analysis for oil samples to support ops and maintenance for releasing outside RCA.

•    Perform sample analysis for the smears for contamination detection

•    Perform sample analysis for the air samples for determining the airborne contamination.

•    Prepare the release reports for oil samples.

•    Prepare the release reports for HVAC filters.

•    Perform decontamination of instruments if required to ensure availability.

•    Procure and maintain the consumables like filters, cocktail for LSC, Vials for HPGe/LSC, Cylindrical Beakers, Pipettes and Tritium bubbler bottles.

•    Maintain the sample log sheets in count room.

•    Maintain availability of essential inventory of count room instruments spare parts.

•    Maintain count room instrument health check sheet.

 

Responsibilities & Accountabilities (contd.)
Professional Certifications
Qualifications

Bachelor of Science Degree.

 3 years of relevant experience

Pref -

•    3 years of relevant experience, out of which:

-    1 year of Nuclear Power Plant experience.

•    APR-1400 or OPR-1000 experience in radiation safety area.

 

Experience