Sentence examples for vulnerable to rupture from inspiring English sources

American officials are also concerned that mounting stresses on the reactors' containment structures as they fill up with radioactive water used in emergency cooling make them vulnerable to rupture in an aftershock from the March 11 earthquake.

The loss was so painful that Groh took the unusual step of all but asking reporters to go easy on players in the moments after the game, explaining that a team is vulnerable to rupture after a game in which one part of the team performed well and another -- in this case, the offense -- floundered.

Among the new threats that were cited in the assessment, dated March 26, are the mounting stresses placed on the containment structures as they fill with radioactive cooling water, making them more vulnerable to rupture in one of the aftershocks rattling the site after the earthquake and tsunami of March 11.

A big aftershock is thought to pose an additional risk to the Fukushima plant because its containment structures, now filled with water that is highly radioactive, may be more vulnerable to rupture, according to an assessment by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission in late March.

We hypothesize that plaque components are vulnerable to rupture due to plaque progression.

MPCM are commonly mixed with with building materials, and are vulnerable to rupture during mixing or compaction.

The implants have proved exceptionally vulnerable to ruptures and leaks, allowing the inferior silicone to seep into the body.

The corrosion, which ate nearly all the way through the thick lid of a reactor, left the vessel dangerously vulnerable to rupturing.

And since the incision would make her uterus vulnerable to rupturing, all of Kelly's future pregnancies would be considered high risk and require Caesarean sections.

(8) The long term behavior of E determines whether the cap becomes vulnerable to rupturing or not.

Onshore buried steel pipelines are vulnerable to fault rupture, where large ground displacements are imposed on the crossing pipe and thus protection measures are often necessary to avoid failure.