Remote glovebox size reduction in glovebox dismantling facility

Glovebox dismantling facility is a centralized decommissioning workshop to dismantle gloveboxes and recover any nuclear fuel material residuals from the gloveboxes. The facility possesses one power manipulator arm and six master slave manipulator arms to remotely size reduce contaminated gloveboxes. In this article the facility is described and the size reduction procedures are introduced. Data obtained from one of the glovebox size reduction activities, which was done by both remote and manual methods, was analyzed and a comparison of these two methods is discussed.