Published 2016
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Safety management system during rock blasting at FRFCF construction site
- 1. Industrial and Fire Safety, Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle Facility, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam (India)
Description
Blasting is an important activity during rock excavation to reach required depth for obtaining stability of the civil structure. For the construction of various Plant Buildings of Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle Facility (FRFCF), IGCAR at Kalpakkam, based on the geological survey it is required to reach a depth of 21.4 meters from existing ground level. This paper details about the procedures and precaution adopted during the rock blasting activities at FRFCF site. The volume of rock removed by blasting was 3 lakh cubic meters. The total number of blasting carried out was 304 using 105.73 tons of blasting material. The entire blasting work could be completed within 174 days without any incident. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Atomic Energy Regulatory Board
- Imprint Place
- Mumbai (India)
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the thirty third DAE safety and occupational health professionals meet: safety in high power and high energy advanced technologies clinical applications of lasers
- Imprint Pagination
- [258 p.]
- Journal Page Range
- 4 p.
Conference
- Title
- safety in high power and high energy advanced technologies clinical applications of lasers
- Acronym
- 33. DAE safety and occupational health professionals meet
- Dates
- 23-25 Nov 2016
- Place
- Gandhinagar (India)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- India
- Country of Input or Organization
- India
- INIS RN
- 48056999
- Subject category
- S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- EXPLOSIVE FRACTURING; FUEL CYCLE CENTERS; SAFETY; UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- EXPLOSIONS; FRACTURING; NUCLEAR FACILITIES
Optional Information
- Notes
- 3 refs., 3 figs., 1 tab.