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...

Helstrom Containment building, a structure enclosing a nuclear reactor Containment (set theory), another term for a subset Containment theory in psychoanalysis...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Containment was a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the...

distinctive white hemisphere envelopes the outer shell of the twin-walled containment building that protects the pressurised water reactor and its steam generators...

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...

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

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

reactor building was not a pressure-type containment shell as would have been used for reactors located in populated areas. Nevertheless, the building was...