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The Fire Extinguisher In Your MRI Suite:
Will It Save A Life, Or Take One?

It could be that the worst thing about FE-36, the new fire extinguishing agent from DuPont, is an unfortunate coincidence in acronyms. For those charged with MR facility safety, any object with iron (chemical abbreviation, Fe) is to be strictly avoided. So it is with a small amount of irony (pun not intended) that FE-36 is being released and marketed to MR facilities.

Why does FE-36 promise to be better than whatever you might have in the extinguisher cabinet down the hall? Two principal reasons...

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If you would like more information about DuPont’s new FE-36 fire extinguishing agent, the Ansul Cleanguard FE13NM portable cylinder, or any other aspect of MR facility design or safety, please contact Robert Junk or Tobias Gilk at Junk Architects.