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Chance of T-storms 95º/69º
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Monday, July 17 -French Quarter Gumbo -French Dip with Horseradish Cream Sauce -Santa Fe Pork Stew -BBQ Roasted Quartered Chicken -Turkey Breast on Homemade Fococcia -Assorted Slice Pizza -Sweet n' Sour Chicken w/Egg Roll The Wilson Hall Cafe accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express. |
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As Greg Gilbert pulls off the Main Ring Road and into a gravel lot, a cloud of dust lifts around his white pickup truck. The Fermilab maintenance superintendent steps out and finagles one of countless keys into a heavy steel door, opening a service building to reveal a massive blue cylinder humming loudly. "This is a shell-and-tube heat exchanger," he says. The device is a part of Fermilab's extensive water cooling system that includes a series of ponds containing 255 million gallons of water--a system crucial to the lab's operation.
In the exchanger, like other water cooling devices across the site, pond water and purified water work together. Purified water travels from hot electrical loads and meets cooler pond water indirectly, drawing heat away from accelerator devices to keep them operating safely. Gilbert says the purified water is filtered of ions to make it less likely to carry electrical current around high-voltage equipment. Because megawatts of electricity heat the lab's equipment, more than 100 gallons of water evaporate each minute from cooling towers at the Central Utility Building, the nexus of the water system. The CUB houses a maze of pipes connecting water to boilers, chillers, filters, pumps and exchangers to keep Fermilab running smoothly.
In charge of overseeing the extensive system, Gilbert spends most of his day at the desk when he's not outside checking for problems. "That's my job. I take care of things here so the FESS supervisors can be out in the field," he says. Whether he's managing maintenance shops, giving safety meetings, answering complaints or handling major problems such as floods or droughts at any time of the day or night, Gilbert says the job is natural for him. "I'm just oriented that way," he says. "I like working with people, making things happen and fixing things."
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| Tired of having to "Note new location" for meetings that used to be in One West? Don't worry, it should all be over soon. Since the conference room closed last month, workers have been busy ripping out old carpet, removing old seating fixtures and installing new overhead gadgets. "The remodeling of One West conference room continues on track to be completed this month," said FESS's Elaine McClusky. "Carpet is almost complete, and chair installation begins this week." |
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BBC News, July 13, 2006:
'Super-scope' will unlock secrets The biggest science facility to be built in the UK for 30 years has marked its first major milestone. The Diamond machine has produced its first "synchrotron" light beam, which will allow experiments to get underway.
Diamond is described as a series of "super microscopes" that will probe the structure of matter down to the scale of atoms and molecules.
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July 12 - 14 - Three stores provided 25 hours and 3 minutes of luminosity - NuMI repairs progressing - Booster quadrupole problems - Two stores aborted due to B4 vacuum trouble - TeV A1 heat exchanger plugged - Machine Reports Read the Current Accelerator Update Read the Early Bird Report View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts |
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Air Pollution Action Day, June 17 Today, Monday, July 17, the air quality is forecasted to reach unhealthy levels. Residents of the Metropolitan Chicago area are asked to take actions to reduce ozone and particle pollution. Suggested actions include:
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