Sentence examples for by a containment structure from inspiring English sources

The Chernobyl reactor, which caught fire after electrical tests resulted in a series of explosions, was not surrounded by a containment structure, as the Japanese reactors are.

But Mr. Kennedy and others said yesterday that federal regulators had never tested the security of the spent fuel at the plant, which contains far more radioactive material than the reactors themselves but is not protected by a containment structure, as the reactors are.

As a final barrier, the reactor is housed in a containment structure, often simply referred to as the containment.

Hydrogen explosions in the first few days of the disaster heavily damaged several reactor buildings and in one case may have damaged a containment structure.

The damaged reactor has been encased in a concrete shell and a new containment structure is due to be completed by 2014.

The active fuel rods at the time of the accident would have to have melted and then caused the reactor vessel to breach followed by the containment structure to breach.

The list of reactors prepared by Greenpeace also includes 12 Russian-designed reactors in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic that lack a second containment structure that could help to prevent the escape of radiation in the event of an accident or terrorist attack, said Mr. Haverkamp.

These tests were performed on different types of soil stratifications supporting a rigid containment structure.

In Chernobyl, a key role was played by the "positive void coefficient" of the reactor core and the lack of an adequate containment structure.

The objective of this study is to investigate the long-term performance of a typical CANDU®1 containment structure.

In order to illustrate the proposed methodology, an idealized double-wall containment structure and a hard projectile were chosen.