Fire Protection Research Program at Sandia National Laboratories
Abstract
Sandia National Laboratories is executing a program for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to provide data needed for confirmation of the suitability of current design standards and regulatory guides for fire protection and control in water reactor power plants. This paper summarizes the activities of this ongoing program through October 1980. Characterization of electrically initiated fires revealed a margin of safety in the separation criteria of Regulatory Guide 1.75 for such fires in IEEE-383 qualified cable. However, tests confirmed that these guidelines and standards are not sufficient, in themselves, to protect against exposure fires. This paper describes both small and full scale tests to assess the adequacy of fire retardant coatings and full scale tests on fire shields to determine their effectiveness. It also describes full scale tests to determine the effects of walls and ceilings on fire propagation between cable trays. Some small-scale scoping tests have been conducted to investigate the effects of varying the furnace pressure on cable penetration performance in the ASTM-E-119 Fire Test. The Sandia Fire Research Facility has been completed and a series of tests have been run to assess the effectiveness of Halon-1301 as a suppression system in extinguishing deep-seated cable-tray fires. It was foundmore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6986230
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-80-2422C; CONF-801053-4
TRN: 80-018661
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 8. water reactor safety research information meeting, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 27 Oct 1980
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; FIRE PREVENTION; WATER COOLED REACTORS; ELECTRIC CABLES; FIRE EXTINGUISHERS; FIRE FIGHTING; SAFETY; CABLES; CONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POWER PLANTS; REACTORS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; 220900* - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Reactor Safety
Citation Formats
Klamerus, L. J. Fire Protection Research Program at Sandia National Laboratories. United States: N. p., 1980.
Web.
Klamerus, L. J. Fire Protection Research Program at Sandia National Laboratories. United States.
Klamerus, L. J. 1980.
"Fire Protection Research Program at Sandia National Laboratories". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6986230.
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abstractNote = {Sandia National Laboratories is executing a program for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to provide data needed for confirmation of the suitability of current design standards and regulatory guides for fire protection and control in water reactor power plants. This paper summarizes the activities of this ongoing program through October 1980. Characterization of electrically initiated fires revealed a margin of safety in the separation criteria of Regulatory Guide 1.75 for such fires in IEEE-383 qualified cable. However, tests confirmed that these guidelines and standards are not sufficient, in themselves, to protect against exposure fires. This paper describes both small and full scale tests to assess the adequacy of fire retardant coatings and full scale tests on fire shields to determine their effectiveness. It also describes full scale tests to determine the effects of walls and ceilings on fire propagation between cable trays. Some small-scale scoping tests have been conducted to investigate the effects of varying the furnace pressure on cable penetration performance in the ASTM-E-119 Fire Test. The Sandia Fire Research Facility has been completed and a series of tests have been run to assess the effectiveness of Halon-1301 as a suppression system in extinguishing deep-seated cable-tray fires. It was found that given sufficient soak times Halon systems are effective in extinguishing such fires.},
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