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50 Special form glove box The SPG is used for contamination control during sample preparation and testing of fuel materials using thermal characterization instrumentation and other analytical sample applications. It is a combination of two Cenham glove boxes connected by a pass-through port. The glove box is equipped with transfer assemblies a transfer port with sealed doors and a bag-out port. The glove box has a one pass air atmosphere with pre-filters that are exhausted through double high-efficiency particulate air HEPA filters. Radiochemistry glove box The RG is used for contamination control during chemical dissolutions separations sample preparation electrolytic deposition electro-polishing and other chemistry on high-contamination alpha- and beta-gamma emitting radionuclides. It is a single glove box system with four gloveports a transfer port with sealed doors a rapid transfer port and a small smear port. It has a one pass air atmosphere with intake and exhaust HEPA filters. Wet prep glove box The WPG is an air atmosphere flow-through style glove box. The glove box train consists of three components two interconnected glove box bays and a fume hood. The WPG is used as contamination control for general manipulations and sample preparation of materials having alpha and beta-gamma emitting radionuclides of higher activity than is allowed for use in fume hoods. A small polycarbonate hood located in the north WPG contains a hot plate which is used for the hot dissolution of samples. Casting laboratory glove box The CL glove box is an inert Ar atmosphere glove box that is utilized to develop equip- ment processes and procedures to cast molten nuclear materials into various shapes which will be suitable for fuel applications. The glove box contains a specially designed furnace enclosed in a stainless steel enclosure that houses structures to accommodate a molds crucible induction coils thermocouples secondary containment to capture melt upon failure of other internal components and can reach a temperature of 1650C. The glove box contains two additional furnaces with a maximum temperature of 900C.