Risk Analysis and Management Problems: Fire Protection

According to the NFPA 59A standard:  "Provisions shall be made as follows to minimize the possibility of damaging effects of fire reaching beyond a property line that can be built upon and that would result in a distinct hazard."

(a) 5 kw/m2 at the nearest point located outside the owner's property line that, at the time of citing, is used for outdoor assembly by groups of 50 or more persons, for a fire over an impounding area containing volume V of LNG (liquid natural gas).

(b) 30 kw/m2 at a property line that can be built upon for a fire over an impounding area containing a volume V of LNG."

According to Lee's "Chemical Process Safety" ( see Handout #8)  ) human and structural fragility to radiation exposure is given by
                    


Determine the amount of damage considered acceptable by NFPA 59A and discuss.