the phone call came in the early afternoon, after a frustrating morning making the snow fall in an online Christmas card. It is good that google exists.
The pictures taken yesterday afternoon in the reactor are not what is required. In what is now seen as wise foresight the camera equipment had been left in the restricted area, no complicated time wasting checking it all out and then in again.
Go in through all the security doors after making sure that the two dosimetric badges are in place. Walk all the way around the reactor core using the metal walkway attached half way up the wall, having collected the camera case and tripod from the place where they had been stored yesterday.
Use the wide angle, try to get everything onto the picture. The area of interest is an empty space between a pile of lead blocks painted salmon pink and a neutron spectrometer in natural silver aluminum. The floor there has been tiled in black granite, and is absolutely even. Big machines can be moved without wheels using air cushion feet. The weight is carried by a quarter of a millimeter of air.
Like a hovercraft.
When the pictures are done, return the borrowed ladder, and take the camera gear to the exit. Fill out the form on green paper so the nuclear safety people know what is to be done. Monitor the hands and the feet for any contamination.
There is none.
Operate the heavy lead doors to leave. Outside, return all the dosimeters, go to the changing room, toss the shoes in the white washable shoe bin and the lab coat into the lab coat bin. Both will be washed, even though they have only been worn once.
Leave the building, and take off the mask in the fresh air.
That is such a relief.
Notice that the keys for the office are not in the pocket where they should be. Turn back. Identification tag into the slit on the door.
The keys where in the pocket of the lab coat.
It will be time to go home soon.
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