In the nuclear industry – endoscopes are a tool commonly use to help optically monitor radioactive processes. In such applications long term resistance of the endoscope to radiation is critical. To improve the safety of monitoring a glass vitrification process at a UK radioactive waste reprocessing plant, Resolve Optics recently developed and supplied an Infrared (IR) endoscope optimised to operate with a thermal camera. Operating at 7-14 microns, the prime function of the IR endoscope was to provide the desired field of view to monitor the vitrification cell and to transfer the image to a bolometer based thermal camera.
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