Fermi Lab -
A car park - but it looks kinda cool
It was a whistlestop tour at Fermi Lab - a huge facility and very imposing on the landscape.
Fermilab's Tevatron is a landmark particle accelerator; in fact, at 6.28 kilometers in circumference, it is the world's highest energy particle accelerator. The four-mile-long Tevatron with its superconducting magnets is the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. Traveling at almost the speed of light, protons and antiprotons circle the Tevatron in opposite directions. Physicists co-ordinate the beams so that they collide at the centers of two 5,000-ton detectors DZero and CDF inside the Tevatron tunnel at energies of 2 trillion electron volts (TeV), revealing the conditions of matter in the early universe and its structure at the smallest scale.
It was a whistlestop tour at Fermi Lab - a huge facility and very imposing on the landscape.
Kane County Office of Emergency Management
Here we met Don, Director of EM for Kane County and located next to the county jail, sheriff's department and despatch control. There were many similarities in relation to funding issues, resources and response arrangements. One thing is very clear. We are years behind in the UK in respect of community engagement and making the mnost of voluntary organisations. In Kane County it is a requirement that all staff are drafted into EM response as and when necessary., No choices, no discussions, you do it full stop. Refreshing to say the least.
Here Keith is shown the comms systems and live data available to the OEM.
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