WAO2023 International Workshop on Accelerator Operations

Session

Lessons Learned from Unforeseen Events

11 Sept 2023, 11:30

Tsukuba International Congress Center (EPOCHAL)

Conveners

Lessons Learned from Unforeseen Events

• Kathleen Genge

35. OR35 - Experience Acquired from Two Major Incidents at Synchrotron SOLEIL

Clement TOURNIER (SOLEIL)

11/09/2023, 11:30

Synchrotron SOLEIL is the 3rd generation French Synchrotron Radiation light source located south of Paris. It has been in operation since 2007 providing photon beams to 29 beamlines with a maximum intensity of 500 mA, 5000 hours per year. Besides its high overall performance (98.95% beam availability, 139 hours mean time between failure), the SOLEIL accelerators have experienced two major...

36. OR36 - The double-edge of a "perfectly efficient" Operations staff

Reid Smith (NSLS-II/BNL)

11/09/2023, 12:00

"The NSLS-II Operations group runs with 12 shift-roles, consistently and historically filled by 12 people. This method of running, with operators and floor-coordinators on shift over 100% of 'full time' makes NSLS-II an outlier among large-accelerators. This mode of operations staffing comes with advantages, and disadvantages.

Like most labs, COVID added numerous new stressors to our...