Safety in the Underground Construction and Operation of the Exploratory Studies Facility at Yucca Mountain (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Underground Safety at the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory
Underground Safety at the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory
Pages 113-120
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Knowledge and understanding of each other's activities is perhaps especially important between scientists and rock workers conducting completely different tasks in the same areas. This is accomplished with all employees at regularly scheduled information meetings and before the start of major research activities.
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The spent fuel is stored in water pools in an underground, interim storage facility outside Oskarshamn In southeastern Sweden. Since all Swedish nuclear power stations are situated on the coast, all transports take place by sea on a specially built ship.
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The National Labor Inspectorate, a state authority, uses two labor inspectors (each of whom has certain specialties) to enforce compliance win existing acts and ordinances.
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Furthermore, it is difficult to use wire mesh near the working face, since it usually gets shot apart in the impending blasting round. Normally, underground facilities have very few escape routes.
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To give research personnel added safety, there is a check-in system with the nearby nuclear power station's local guard center. Before personnel go underground, they phone the guard center and state when they plan to return to the surface.
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Today the total inflow to the tunnel is about 2,000 liters per minute, and the pump capacity is about 3,500 liters per minute. Because the contractor has coordinating responsibility for He construction site, He shift supervisor must always give verbal permission before anyone may go underground, along with information on any problems with passage, fan or pump troubles, etc., Hat might affect safety.
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Far too much cable would be necessary for the system to have any advantage over an ordinary telephone. Thus, the project participants recently decided to schedule the installation of the permanent internal telephone system earlier than originally planned and to expand it with additional telephones, a solution accepted by the local rescue service.
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120 Safety in the Underground Construction aru1 Operation of the Exploratory Studies Facility to ensure familiarity with the facility, each must first complete a long introductory session. If these criteria are met, scientists may go underground for up to nine hours without mining personnel accompanying them.
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