Containment takes several forms.
In Westinghouse's AP1000 reactor, if a pipe leading to the reactor vessel bursts and releases radioactive steam into the steel reactor containment (green), several emergency systems are activated automatically. 1.
In addition to physical containment measures, several genetic strategies, including maternal inheritance, male sterility and seed sterility (also called "terminator" technology), have been proposed for containing transgenes [5] [6].
Discussions of how the models had translated this first-line response strategy, now usually known as "surveillance and containment," highlighted several discrepancies and ambiguities.
Records for which local transmission of Ebola virus was deemed unlikely (e.g., seropositive primates tested in containment facilities several years after their capture) were excluded from the study.
Some involve measurement and containment; there are several grid-based pieces in the show.
BP engineers are now working on several containment plans, with the first being implemented over the next few days.
Mr. Jaczko also offered a new theory about the cause of the explosions that destroyed the secondary containment structures of several of the reactors.
Several containment concepts have been assessed with a methodology that takes into account public safety, worker safety, operability and maintainability as well as cost.
The latest crisis in a long-running series of public relations and safety disasters for Japan's nuclear power industry began last fall, when cracks were discovered in the containment vessels of several nuclear reactors.
