Fire protection review: revisit No. 2, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois

Technical Report · Sat Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:5315846

Almon, R H; Earley, M W; Merritt, R C

A fire protection survey was conducted at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, on June 17 to 21, 24 to 28, 1985 and November 4 to 8, 1985 to review the facility fire protection program and to make recommendations. A number of improvements have been made in Laboratory fire protection systems since the Fire Protection review of 1977. These include the installation of automatic sprinklers in some of the Village Laboratories and several areas in Industrial Buildings. A new 5000 gpm pump has been provided at the Casey's Pond pumping station and new fire and industrial cooling water underground mains have been installed, which has improved the reliability of the overall underground system. There are a number of areas where loss potentials presently exceed $1,000,000. The major defects noted were the lack of redundant water supplies and the need for additional automatic sprinkler or halon protection for grouped electrical cables in the main accelerator, booster ring, antiproton ring facility, beam lines, target areas, including the B-O Experiment and the telephone equipment room in Wilson Hall.

• Research Organization: Factory Mutual Research Corp., Norwood, MA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-84PE17056
• OSTI ID: 5315846
• Report Number(s): DOE/PE/17056-T8; ON: DE86007925
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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