More Than 100 Fire Protection Professionals Attend Idaho Site Workshop

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – The U.S. DOE Idaho Operations Office and its contractor partners, Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA) and the Idaho Environmental Coalition (IEC), collaborated to host the DOE/ Energy Facility Contractors Group Fire Protection Workshop at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site recently. Over 100 DOE federal and contractor fire protection and fire service professionals from across the DOE complex attended. With the theme of “Passing the Torch — Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going,” the workshop included topical sessions on lessons learned from past fire-related events throughout the DOE complex, breakout sessions, networking and tours of INL facilities. BEA is an Office of Nuclear Energy contractor while IEC supports EM. DOE also worked with UL Solutions to conduct a one-day educational session addressing topics on mitigating electrochemical, fire and explosion hazards associated with energy storage systems. DOE’s Office of Environment, Health, Safety, and Security sponsored the course, which provided training and development for federal and contractor fire protection professionals.