- Author
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Mattern, L. J.
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Hertzer, D. R.
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Voss, R. E.
- Title
- Fire Protection Review: Revisit No. 2. Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Piketon, Ohio.
- Coporate
- Factory Mutual Research Corp., Norwood, MA
- Sponsor
- Department of Energy, Washington, DC
- Report
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DOE/EH-79072-T4
June 1990
86 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- DE-AC01-88EH79072
- Keywords
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fire protection
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surveys
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inspections
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evaluation
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insurance
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industrial plants
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diffusion
- Identifiers
- facility fire protection program; Highly Protected Risk (HPR) fire inspection; identification of areas; property damage (PD); Maximum Foreseeable Loss (MFL); Business Interruption (BI)
- Abstract
- A fire protection survey w3as conducted for the Department of Energy at the Portsmouth Gaseous diffusion Plant, Piketon, Ohio, from January 22-26 and March 5-9, 1990. The purpose of the survey was to review the facility fire protection program and to make recommendations or to identify areas according to the following criteria established by the U. S. Department of Energy: 1) Recommendations which would be made as the result of a Highly Protected Risk (HPR) fire inspection of an industrial insured facility. 2) Identification of areas where provision of automatic protection would limit a fire or explosion loss to $1 million. 3) Identification of areas where loss potentials exceed $50 million assuming a failure of automatic protection systems and subsequent reliance only on separation, fire walls, or value limitations. 4) Evaluation of Adequacy of compliance with recommendations made in prior surveys. In private industry, the effect of insured losses on continuity of operations is referred to as Business Interruption and is usually expressed in monetary terms to cover continuing expense and loss of profit until such time as repairs are made and production is resumed. Loss of use of a facility of this type does not lend itself to expression in monetary terms. Surveys of other facilities resulted in a classification system for buildings which provide an indication of the importance of the building to the fulfillment of the mission of the facility. Recommendations in this report reflect to some degree the relative importance of the facility and the time to restore it to useful condition in the event a loss were to occur. The following classification system was used: Critical The loss of a critical facility would cause shutdown or serious interruption to several facilities housing vital, expensive, and/or hazardous operations.