Radium Incorporated (Radium) set out on a mission to develop the ultimate personal breathing and cooling system for the nuclear power industry worker. For decades, nuclear workers had no choice but to use respiratory protection products that starved them for air, were obstructive to use, and created an extremely hot and stressful environment to work. The Hurricane Hood™ line of products is the industry solution for a problem that has lingered long enough.

Radium’s experience in steam generator nozzle dam services played an important role in the development of the Hurricane Hood. One of the design goals was to develop a system that could be used by nozzle dam technicians to install or remove dams. It had to be a compact system that would not obstruct the technician from entering or exiting the channel head through a 16" steam generator primary manway and provide ample air flow. The Hurricane Hood Category 3 (CAT-3) is the solution.