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http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/acts ... ry-ltd.cfm

"On June 11, 2014, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced that it had issued an order to Pump House Brewery Ltd., a Canadian company based in Moncton, New Brunswick, specialized in brewing and bottling beer. The company currently holds a CNSC licence, authorizing the possession and use of fixed gauges used to monitor operations at the plant.

The order was issued on June 4, following a CNSC inspection at the company’s location in Moncton. The inspection identified several non-compliances related to safety requirements for nuclear gauges. The inspection also revealed that a nuclear gauge had been repeatedly installed and removed without CNSC authorization.

The order requires Pump House Brewery Ltd. to place the nuclear gauge in secure storage, prevent its unauthorized access, and cease all installation and removal of nuclear gauges until all the safety requirements have been satisfactorily addressed.

The CNSC implements these measures to protect the health and safety of workers, the Canadian public, and the environment."

Presumably these gauges are used for bottle filling... I had no idea!

Interesting...I sense a new nuclear beer comign from this.....can't remember what beers I had at the Pump House now, but their root beer is pretty good.

WTF does a brewery need a nuclear gauge for?

JerCraigs wrote:WTF does a brewery need a nuclear gauge for?

Probably got a bunch of gauges cheap when Point Lepreau shut down

JerCraigs wrote:WTF does a brewery need a nuclear gauge for?

Find this interesting since I work for the CNSC (although not on the technical side)...most people when they think of nuclear mainly think power plants or bombs, but it has many industrial and medical uses, and in this case is used in measurement.

Looks like the beer should be safe:

http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/acts ... ry-ltd.cfm

(I'm guessing they were probably concerned about security and/or staff exposure).

pushkinwow wrote:

JerCraigs wrote:WTF does a brewery need a nuclear gauge for?

Find this interesting since I work for the CNSC (although not on the technical side)...most people when they think of nuclear mainly think power plants or bombs, but it has many industrial and medical uses, and in this case is used in measurement.

huh. Google suggests it may be a way to check for low fills??? Seems like a high tech solution for a low tech problem but who knows.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... =firefox-a

My uncle, who works at Bruce as an instrumentation tech suggested the swapping may have occurred if they moved the detector from a bottling line to a keg filler