Sentence examples for containment barriers from inspiring English sources

To design waste containment barriers, low permeability soils or manufactured liner products are required.

Instead they let it drift away, and clung to the buoys and containment barriers that were meant to cordon off the waterfall, Mr. Baard said.

Storm sewers caused some oil to enter Burrard Inlet, although light winds and the rapid placement of containment barriers limited its spread.

Studies indicate that diffusion may be an important, if not dominant mechanism of contaminant transport through waste containment barriers.

Bentonite based geosynthetic clay liners (GCLs) are commonly used as chemical containment barriers to minimize liquid flow and contaminant transport.

Furthermore, T-B systems were tested as containment barriers and sorbent materials with good results including its recyclability.

The distinguishing feature is transfer of pumping power by alternating air flow across a containment barrier, inside which there are no moving, deformed, or sealed components.

Complicating matters is the presence of large amounts of spent fuel — which contain most of the same radioactive elements as the fuel in the reactor — in storage ponds that are outside any containment barrier.

The Crystal River plant, in Citrus County, Fla., has been closed since 2009, when a crack was found in a concrete containment barrier when the plant was undergoing refueling and the replacement of its steam generators.

To evaluate the effectiveness of adsorption onto amorphous ferric oxyhydroxide as a containment barrier, the extent of uranium adsorption was quantified as a function of solution chemistry and other adsorption parameters.

As part of an applied research project, an engineering design and structure deployment study was conducted to investigate the feasibility of performing in-situ larval set of Crassostrea virginica within a temporarily deployed containment barrier.