External Events

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EXTERNAL EVENTS. Natural phenomena or man-caused hazards not related to the

facility. [DOE G 450.4-1B]

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EXTREMITY. Hands and arms below the elbow or feet and legs below the knee. [10

CFR 835.2]

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FACILITY. Land, buildings, and other structures, their functional systems and

equipment, and other fixed systems and equipment installed therein, including site

development features outside the plant, such as landscaping, roads, walks, and parking

areas, outside lighting and communication systems, central utility plants, utilities supply

and distribution systems, and other physical plant features. These include any of the

DOE-owned, -leased, or controlled facilities, and they may or may not be furnished to a

contractor under a contract with DOE. [DOE O 430.1B]

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FACILITY. Any equipment, structure, system, process, or activity that fulfills a specific

purpose. Facilities do not have to be structures. Examples include accelerators, storage

areas, fusion research devices, nuclear reactors, production or processing plants, coal

conversion plants, magnetohydrodynamics experiments, windmills, radioactive waste

disposal systems and burial grounds, environmental restoration activities, testing

laboratories, research laboratories, transportation activities, and accommodations for

analytical examinations of irradiated and unirradiated components. [DOE Glossary]

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FACILITY. The buildings, utilities, structures, and other land improvements associated

with an operation or service and dedicated to a common function. [DOE G 450.4-1B]

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FACILITY BOUNDARY. The fence or other barrier that surrounds and prevents

uncontrolled access to the nuclear facility or facilities. [DOE O 5480.30] [EH62dd1]

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FACILITY MANAGER. That individual, or designee, usually but not always a

contractor, with direct line responsibility for operation of a facility or group of related

facilities, including authority to direct physical changes to the facility. [DOE M 232.1-

1A]

FACILITY SHUTDOWN. (1) The situation in which a reactor is taken subcritical either

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manually or automatically to a safe shutdown condition, or (2) the condition in which a

nonreactor nuclear facility ceases operations for which the facility was being operated

and is placed in a safe condition (i.e., program work ceases). In a shutdown condition, a

facility must still meet all applicable technical safety requirements and environmental,

safety, and health requirements. [DOE O 5480.31]

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