Case Studies: Radiograph Management

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The Problem

The NRC requires nuclear sites to X-Ray welds during construction and whenever certain plant modifications are performed as a part of the permanent record. Over the years, sites generate literally millions of radiographs and must maintain them in a regulated, safe and efficient manner. As with many other document types, different vendors transmit these documents to document control in many different ways. And, over ten, fifteen, twenty years, these radiographs dominate an enormous portion of the vault. With millions of images that are required to be kept on file for the life of the plant plus an additional 100 years, storage space becomes precious and organizational challenges become complicated. Many solutions that are readily available for paper documents simply cannot be applied to radiographs due to the dynamic nature of the type of information recorded on these images.

The Solution

NAC International teamed with F.Y.I Image to provide an immediate solution that provides long-term, cost-effective storage and maintenance of Radiographs. Our solution will organize, index, microfilm, and/or digitize your radiographs. Our solution will also enhance the manner in which images are retrieved and maintained in comparison to the current processes being utilized.

The Benefits

The utilization of the F.Y.I micrographic solution to organize, index, microfilm and/or digitize the radiographs will provide efficiency improvements along with presenting added value to the EDMS investment. Additional benefits include the following:

	Improved efficiency and reliability of search and retrieval tasks
	Enormous amounts of vault space will be vacated
	Radiographs potentially available online through the site EDMS System
	Facilitation of current and future licensing issues
	Substantial decrease in effort and cost of long term document maintenance