"Ennoia" (2002), a video performance showing on a nearby monitor, documents a six-hour semi-immersion in a cast-concrete vessel at the Diapason Gallery in Manhattan.
Heat generated by the compression process would be stored in large, ceramic-filled concrete pressure vessels.
The concrete containment vessels that surround the reactors at Fessenheim are just a fraction of the thickness of those at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, at least one of which was shown to have cracked in the disaster there.
In the 20th century the design and construction of power stations has advanced with the rapid rise in demand for electric power, and nuclear power stations have added a whole new field of design and construction, involving prestressed concrete pressure vessels for the reactor.
The explosions that have occurred have mostly taken place outside the steel and concrete containment vessels enclosing the reactors.
Major infrastructure, for example bridges, tunnels, prestressed concrete containment vessels (PCCVs), and liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks are often constructed using prestressed concrete, because it enhances the structural capacity.
In Japan, the following five plants in operation use prestressed concrete containment vessels (PCCVs): Tsuruga #2 (in operation in 1987), Ohi #3 and #4 (in operation in 1991 and 1993, respectively), and Genkai #3 and #4 (in operation in 1994 and 1997, respectively).
In order to investigate the seismic performance of the CPR1000 prestressed concrete containment vessel (PCCV) structure under design and beyond-design basis earthquake, a 1/20 scale concrete containment vessel (CCV) model was designed and constructed on the shaking table based on the similitude requirements from the Buckingham's π-Theorem.
While the reactor is surrounded by a concrete containment vessel, the commission allows spent fuel to be kept in a large, aboveground and unprotected pool of water.
Hu and Lin (2006) analysed a PWR prestressed concrete containment vessel to verify its structural integrity under internal pressure.
