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Panel 3: Experience with Underground Facilities: Capabilities, Limitations, and Applications
Pages 30-37

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... It included defensive bunkers that were six or seven levels deep and stored ammunition, bunking, messing, emergency supplies, electric generators, and other essentials. A very large defensive structure was built on Gibraltar from which the allies could control the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.
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... Mr. Cicolani stated that the only countries that have significantly utilized UGFs beyond defense purposes to include critical infrastructures have been Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.
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... Coordinate on such items as schedule, safety, fire protection, security, notifications, daily shutdown, and after-hours notification. Other issues include escort for workers, waste removal, asbestos removal, and utility outages.
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... This region is ideal for underground development because of widespread limestone mines, and Kansas City has, in fact, pioneered commercial use of underground space. Initially, the real estate community in the area was not interested in underground development.
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... Mr. Woodard described several commercial underground facilities in the Kansas City area and noted that underground operators have developed their own marketing expertise.
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... In response to the Berlin crisis in 1948, all of these programs were implemented by legislation. Six main preparedness categories are considered by the Norwegian parliament every year: emergency, information, economic, medical emergency, police, and civil defense.
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... Many petroleum, oil, and lubrication facilities, pumping stations, and gas stations also are located underground. In addition, water, fresh food, deep freeze, and cold storage supplies are stocked for several months, while telecommunications and air traffic control systems are protected underground as well.
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... For those facilities that have sprinklers, fire is not a great threat. Americold Inland, one of the largest underground installations in the Kansas City metropolitan area, had a significant fire that burned for over two months.
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