This keynote address summarizes safety considerations for CERN's underground research complex. It notes that CERN has over 2512 staff and over 10,000 users conducting scientific work with an annual budget of 1.165 billion Swiss francs. The primary tool is particle accelerators located underground to screen detectors from cosmic rays and stop collision particles. It describes the large underground cavern dimensions that house experiments and infrastructure like ventilation, cooling and power above ground. It outlines operational safety measures when the beam is on like effluent monitoring and when it is off for maintenance. Specific hazards discussed include cryogenic leaks, fire, and communication systems for emergencies. Future potential projects are briefly mentioned before concluding that most time no one is underground
This keynote address summarizes safety considerations for CERN's underground research complex. It notes that CERN has over 2512 staff and over 10,000 users conducting scientific work with an annual budget of 1.165 billion Swiss francs. The primary tool is particle accelerators located underground to screen detectors from cosmic rays and stop collision particles. It describes the large underground cavern dimensions that house experiments and infrastructure like ventilation, cooling and power above ground. It outlines operational safety measures when the beam is on like effluent monitoring and when it is off for maintenance. Specific hazards discussed include cryogenic leaks, fire, and communication systems for emergencies. Future potential projects are briefly mentioned before concluding that most time no one is underground
This keynote address summarizes safety considerations for CERN's underground research complex. It notes that CERN has over 2512 staff and over 10,000 users conducting scientific work with an annual budget of 1.165 billion Swiss francs. The primary tool is particle accelerators located underground to screen detectors from cosmic rays and stop collision particles. It describes the large underground cavern dimensions that house experiments and infrastructure like ventilation, cooling and power above ground. It outlines operational safety measures when the beam is on like effluent monitoring and when it is off for maintenance. Specific hazards discussed include cryogenic leaks, fire, and communication systems for emergencies. Future potential projects are briefly mentioned before concluding that most time no one is underground
This keynote address summarizes safety considerations for CERN's underground research complex. It notes that CERN has over 2512 staff and over 10,000 users conducting scientific work with an annual budget of 1.165 billion Swiss francs. The primary tool is particle accelerators located underground to screen detectors from cosmic rays and stop collision particles. It describes the large underground cavern dimensions that house experiments and infrastructure like ventilation, cooling and power above ground. It outlines operational safety measures when the beam is on like effluent monitoring and when it is off for maintenance. Specific hazards discussed include cryogenic leaks, fire, and communication systems for emergencies. Future potential projects are briefly mentioned before concluding that most time no one is underground
Whirling particles around to boost their energies, then casting them toward a target like stones from a slingshot is the most effective way to smash open atomic nuclei.
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The tools do not exist, scientist and engineers have to create them. This technological effort has important return for everyday life:
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Putting the machine underground allows LHC
to have a negligible environmental impact.
Why underground-2? To screen the particle detectors from cosmic rays (high energy protons of cosmic origin) For 1 GeV particles, the rate is about 10,000 per square meter per second
To stop the particle
produced by the collision
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Dimensions of the caverns
ATLAS: 55 m long, 35 m wide, and 40 m high;
LHC Standard Section
CMS: 53 metres long, 27 metres wide and 24
metres high.
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The accerator has also service infrastructures on surface
VENTILATION,
COOLING,
POWER,
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What is operation for us? 1/2
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What is operation for us? 1/2
Beam on- data acquisition: Everybody out, access prevention; Monitoring effluents levels against environmental limits, Monitoring the machine and react to anomalies or incidents.
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What is operation for us? 2/2
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What is operation for us? 2/2
Beam off maintenance: Plan before doing; Access restrictions; Personal radiological dosimetry; Training for emergencies.
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Criogenic leak > risk of Oxygen lack
96 t of liquid Helium in the accelerator tunnel ~ 100 t of liquid Argon, Helium, Nitrogen in the 4 experiments Risk of lung cold burns and risk of axphixiation
Amongst the measures:
Helium spills simulations and test, Oxygen lack sensors, Personal breathing equipment.
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Training on Emergency Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus
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Fire hazard
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CERN Alarm System
Fire Brigade bld.65 (Al3)
CERN Control Centre Prevessin
Fire fighting Onsite fire brigade
Watermist High expansion foam system CO2
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Communication warning systems
evacuation alarm
Red phones
Mobile telecom, leacky feedeer cable
Terrestrial trunked radio
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Outlook on future projects
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Outlook on Potential Future Physics Projects e.g. ILC Japan
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Potential Future Physics Projects
e.g. CERN High Energy LHC 80km tunnel in Geneva Region
LHC
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conclusion A large underground facility with complex multidisciplinary safety challenges; Most of the time no people underground; World wide collaborations in different disciplines of physics and engineering to develop new technologies.
