Sentence examples for containment structure from inspiring English sources

The inner containment structure was accepted after the successful pre-commissioning proof (structural integrity) and leakage rate tests.

Around all this sits the steel and concrete of the secondary containment structure.

To meet this purpose, the containment structure must be at least nominally airtight.

The buildings that house the nuclear cores of the plants are protected by the three-foot-thick concrete containment structure.

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

The Soviet reactor, which had no real containment structure, blew up in 1986 and spewed its contents far and wide.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission cited high levels of radiation at one spot inside the containment structure at Reactor No. 2 as evidence for its analysis.

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 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.

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 Chernobyl reactor exploded during a power surge while it was in operation and released a major cloud of radiation because the reactor had no containment structure around it.