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Clean rooms— Another fire protection problem

Part I fire protection considerations in clean room design and operation

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What are the characteristics that set clean rooms apart from other rooms? Are clean rooms potentially high loss facilities? What can be done to protect them and their contents? These are questions to which the author directs his attention on the following pages.

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  1. United States Atomic Energy Commission, USA

    Donald J. Keigher SFPE

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Note: Based on a paper delivered by the author at the Sixth Annual Technical Meeting of the American Association for Contamination Control, May 15–18, 1967, Washington, D.C.

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Keigher, D.J. Clean rooms— Another fire protection problem. Fire Technol 3, 261–271 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02588986

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