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Electric Arc Burns Technician at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center | ||
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A contractor's electrician working at SLAC suffered serious burns on Monday,
October 11, while installing a breaker switch next to a live 480-Volt
electrical panel in the Klystron Gallery of the linear accelerator. An
electrical arc, described as a "fireball" by the co-workers who rescued him,
ignited the electrician's clothing, causing 2nd and 3rd degree burns over
60% of his body. As of today, a week following the accident, the worker's
condition has been upgraded from critical to serious, and is sufficiently
stable to remove him from a ventilator.
In an all-hands meeting the day after the accident, SLAC Director Jonathan Dorfan told the lab workforce: "We are at a turning point in the life of our laboratory and now is the time for change. The safety culture at SLAC must improve. There is no alternative." Dorfan exhorted each employee to "deliberate with the utmost seriousness what we can do to identify, root out, and change any behavior or process that could be unsafe." A DOE Type A investigation team has been assembled and begins its investigation of the incident today at SLAC. All work activities have been suspended since the accident, and will resume only after the completion of several well-defined steps designed to raise the safety consciousness of the entire workforce. Some work, such as electrical work, and hoisting and rigging, will be suspended indefinitely. In a memorandum distributed on Monday, October 18, Dorfan told the SLAC workforce that he took the "extraordinary step of turning off the accelerators indefinitely to allow us to focus all our energies on one imperative: SAFETY. Safety comes first: No questions! Safety is something that all of us must value above all."
Fermilab Director Michael Witherell joined Dorfan in sending wishes for a
speedy recovery to the wife and family of the injured worker. "We will not
know exactly what happened until the investigation is complete," Witherell
said. But in the interim, he added, "this incident serves as a reminder that
much of the work we do is hazardous. To avoid accidents, we need to continue
and even improve the practices that we know work: careful planning,
appropriate training, protective equipment, and approved procedures. We
simply can't afford to become complacent."
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From the Rapid City Journal, October 13, 2004 NSF asks for deep-lab proposals By Bill Harlan The National Science Foundation on Wednesday asked for site proposals for a "deep underground science and engineering laboratory" — or DUSEL.
"This is great news," California physicist Kevin Lesko said. "It's out, and it's out before the election. The NSF is doing what they said they'd do."
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Good Morning! | ||
The LHC promises more than the long-awaited discovery of whatever Higgs boson might exist. Dark matter is abundant in the universe, and the chances are very good that we will find out what it is made of at the LHC. As attractive as the prospects are for finding exotic new physics like supersymmetry or extra dimensions at the Tevatron, we will be able to search for them in expansive new territory when the LHC results start coming in.
The LHC accelerator and the CMS and ATLAS experiments are large, complex
instruments to build and to operate. Problems will come up over the next
few years, and innovative physicists and engineers will solve them.
The tremendous physics payoff at the LHC will be well worth this heroic effort.
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