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CEI is currently providing process engineering expertise for the clean-up of residual sodium in a fast breeder reactor in Newport, Michigan. We have been involved with all phases of the sodium and NaK (sodium potassium alloy) removal process and have helped our customer safely clean up and react the sodium contaminated equipment over the past eight years. We are currently in the process of helping with the design of the system to remove the residual metal from the reactor vessel itself. In the past 2-3 years alone CEI has designed, procured and mobilized systems to process alkali metal residues at the DOE Hanford site in Washington and Oak Ridge National Labs in Tennessee. We also recently completed a large sodium disposal project (over 5000 pounds of metal!!!) at a chemical facility in Montana and even branched out internationally to provide our alkali metal disposal expertise to a decommissioning project in Gladstone, Australia. For all our alkalimetal disposal projects we not only do the process engineering required, we build the skid mounted equipment required and we operate that equipment! When you choose CEI for your alkali metal work you get the engineers and personnel who have actually handled these materials, we do not hire local, inexperienced personel to boost profit. When working with hazardous materials, nothing beats hands on expertise gained from actual field experiences. Why do fluoropolymers need to be etched? Fluoropolymers are used throughout the chemical and pharmaceutical industries as the standard choice for excellent chemical resistance for all types of raw materials and products. Fluoropolymers are used for a number of standard products such as: tubing, gaskets and seals, and even linings and coatings for specialty tanks and vessels. In some applications, users of this material need the best of both worlds. That is, resistance to all types of corrosive materials and yet the ability to bond the fluoropolymer to other materials. When fluoropolymers are etched, the surface is modified ever so slightly to allow for the use of standard bonding agents and adhesives. In most cases, the active etching solution will strip the fluorine molecules from the surface of the polymer and replace them with other molecules that accept the bonding adhesives. Can Creative Engineers do in-house etching or provide etching systems?