Sentences with phrase «reactor containment building»
Conceptually, it would be hard to envisage replacement of the reactor containment building.
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Burnell referred to the water reservoir above the shield building that floods the reactor containment area if normal reactor cooling systems fail.
Accordingly, it is virtually certain that the regulators will demand a containment building for a commercial tokamak reactor that will likely resemble what is currently required for fission reactors, so as to protect the public from normal - going superconducting magnet energy release.
American reactors have containment buildings that can contain any accident.
Although radiation leakage has been reported, the reactor core containment is said still to be intact, But if the cooling operation is not successful then there is a risk that, aside from the (hopefully low) possibility of a explosion as at Chernobyl, or a hydrogen explosion (as was feared at one time at Three Mile Island in the USA), melting fuel could burn through the core and the floor of the reactor building and enter the soil, a risk that would be heightened if the floor structure was cracked by the earthquake.