Sentence examples for surrounding reactor from inspiring English sources

A third explosion occurred on March 15 in the building surrounding reactor 2. At that time the explosion was thought to have damaged the containment vessel housing the fuel rods.

The warnings were stark and issued repeatedly as far back as 1972: If the cooling systems ever failed at a "Mark 1" nuclear reactor, the primary containment vessel surrounding the reactor would probably burst as the fuel rods inside overheated.

They said that the blast, which may have been caused by a sharp buildup of hydrogen when the reactor's cooling system failed, destroyed the concrete structure surrounding the reactor but did not collapse the critical steel container inside.

The computation of optimal currents which maximize the rate of financial gain in magnetoelectrolytic reactors is analysed in the specific case where the magnetic field is generated in a solenoid surrounding the reactor, by the current utilized for electrolysis.

Moreover, the scale of disruption in the wake of the incident was enormous, with around 115,000 people evacuated by the authorities from areas surrounding the reactor in 1986.

Among the many problems that officials acknowledged on Wednesday were what appeared to be yet another fire at the plant and indications that the containment vessel surrounding a reactor may have ruptured.

And Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, and others have drawn attention to concerns raised by an engineer at the commission that a building surrounding the reactor containment might fail under some circumstances.

In 1986, the authorities evacuated about 115,000 people from areas surrounding the reactor.

Then engineers will inject nitrogen into the pressure vessel surrounding each reactor.

The RA-10 SSS consists on the drainage of the reflector tank surrounding the reactor core through a system of pipes in a limited amount of time solely by the action of gravity.

Chernobyl revealed the folly of not having an extra barrier of thick concrete and steel surrounding the reactor core that is required for modern plants, in the U.S., Japan and elsewhere.