Hurricane Isabel's Impact on JLab
Hurricane Isabel, originally a Category 5 storm (with winds in excess of 155mph), gradually deteriorated as it approached the eastern seashore of the United States arriving at Jefferson Lab on September 18, 2003 with sustained winds of 75mph or a category 2 storm. The storm resulted in minimal direct damage to the infrastructure of Jefferson Lab however caused significant community damage and loss of electric power for four days. Due to the power outage, public travel was limited and JLab was closed for five days before staff was allowed back to work. Without accelerator site utilities beamline vacuum deteriorated and the superconducting cryomodules warmed up causing a total loss of the liquid helium (65,000 liters). This presentation will review the lessons learned and preventive measures that were put in place to mitigate the impact of future hurricanes.
- Research Organization:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-06OR23177
- OSTI ID:
- 1993975
- Report Number(s):
- JLAB-ACO-12-1681; DOE/OR/23177-6908
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WAO 2012, Menlo Park, CA (SLAC), August 6, 2012
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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