A containment building is a reinforced steel, concrete or lead structure enclosing a nuclear reactor. It is designed, in any emergency, to contain the...

containment building. This radioactive coolant was pumped from the containment building sump to an auxiliary building, outside the main containment,...

systems are always present to make such accidents unlikely. The containment building is the last of several safeguards that prevent the release of radioactivity...

levels of containment to prevent contact between the radioactive materials and the biosphere: Most reactors are enclosed in a containment building designed...

outage. In preparing the containment building for making the opening to replace the two OTSG's, tendons in the containment building wall were detensioned...

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the primary containment building. Concrete can withstand a great deal of heat, so the thick flat concrete floor in the primary containment will often be...

primary containment. Generation of hydrogen during the process would probably result in an explosion, damaging the secondary containment building. Thus...

confidential scientific reports that document various SCPs and associated containment procedures. The website also contains "Foundation Tales", short stories...

November 21, 2009, a release of radioactivity occurred inside the containment building of TMI-1 while workers were cutting pipes. Exelon Corporation stated...

the completion and installation of the Containment Liner Plate (CLP) in the Unit 1 Reactor Containment Building (RCB) in November 2013; the installation...

traditional containment to emphasize the difference between the containment of radioactive gases—the primary focus of most reactor containment buildings—and the...

Secondary containment may refer to: Containment building, a type of building used with nuclear reactors Secondary spill containment, a technique for dealing...

were found in the concrete containment buildings for units 2 & 3. Grease was found to have leaked through the unit 3 containment, which may have been due...

design of the reactor, with the Soviet patent office. Because a containment building would have needed to be very large and expensive, doubling the cost...

build, its size increases the cost for standard features like the containment building. Generally nuclear plant construction and operations are ≈65% of...

as weaknesses in the steel containment vessel and the concrete shield building around the AP1000 in that its containment vessel does not have sufficient...

to the reactor coolant system. It is located inside the reactor containment building. Although the water in the pressurizer is the same reactor coolant...

started in Argentina with the civil engineering construction of the containment building of a prototype reactor. The CAREM acronym means Central ARgentina...

have been less. Unpowered filtering systems on containment building vent lines, known as Filtered Containment Venting Systems (FCVS), can safely catch radioactive...

reactor in case of a nuclear meltdown and prevent it from escaping the containment building. A core catcher is made from a special thermally resistant concrete...

ring of the containment vessel was set for unit 4, and on December 8, 2019 the unit 3 shield building roof was set above the unit 3 containment vessel. On...

demolition, in which the Fuel Handling building (the smaller square building between the two containment buildings) was slowly being torn away and scrapped...

fuel assembly and primary coolant hermetically. Reactor building: a concrete containment building that encases the whole first circuit is strong enough...

into the containment building. The containment building sump pumps automatically pumped the contaminated water outside the containment building. Both a...

pressure of the containment building in the case of a severe nuclear accident. As a Severe Accident Management Measure (SAMM), containment venting cannot...

radiation when the worker tried to vent vapour from a valve of the containment building. Three more workers were exposed to radiation over 100 mSv, and two...

weighs 425 tons and has steel walls 8+1⁄2 inches (220 mm) thick. The containment building is 116 feet (35 m) in diameter and 189 feet (58 m) tall, including...

Nuclear Power Plant in both reactor design and lack of a robust containment building, Lithuania agreed to close the plant as part of its agreement of...

instrumentation to monitor and control the reactor, radiation shielding, and a containment building. Fast-neutron reactors use fast neutrons to cause fission in their...