Sentences with phrase «reactor vessel containing»

The chemists built a detector with modified potato tissue supported in a reactor vessel containing a fluorescent marker.

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In addition, it remains unclear how the hydrogen got from the sealed area containing the reactor vessel into the surrounding building — and then built up in sufficient quantities to explode.

If fuel rods remain uncovered, they may begin to melt, and hot, radioactive fuel can pool at the bottom of the vessel containing the reactor.

After all, the first reactor built at Qinshan back in 1990 — the first reactor ever designed and constructed entirely by the Chinese — had to be torn down and rebuilt because of faults in the foundation as well as defects in the welding of the steel vessel that contained the reactor itself.

NuScale's self - contained SMR houses the reactor core, pressuriser and steam generator inside a single containment vessel.

NuScale's self - contained SMR design houses the reactor core, pressuriser and steam generator inside a single containment vessel.