Former Cuban nuclear power officials who defected to the United States in the early 1990s claimed that the plant contained numerous safety problems including defective reactor containment structures, poor quality construction, and dangerously low pressure thresholds.
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And that's not even counting the mass and volume required to build a reactor containment that would have to be strong enough to stand any conceivable crash ( much more than the crash protection provided to the human occupants ).
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Seeking to counter assertions that the nation's nuclear plants are vulnerable to attacks like the one on the World Trade Center, 19 prominent nuclear experts have concluded that a reactor containment building could easily withstand the force of a jetliner crash.
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As of February 2009, the NRC requires that the design of new power plants ensures that the reactor containment would remain intact, cooling systems would continue to operate, and spent fuel pools would be protected, in the event of an aircraft crash.
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Floyd acknowledged that if a jet were to hit a reactor containment vessel at high speeds, then the structure might be penetrated, especially if the plane struck the containment vessel at the top, where the concrete and steel protective shells are thinnest.
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The reactor containment walls, a key defense against the release of radioactive material into the atmosphere, have been constructed to withstand pressures of about seven pounds per square inch, Nogueras said, while international standards call for withstanding more than 50 pounds per square inch.
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WASHINGTON _ Just as builders of the World Trade Center claimed that the 110-story towers could withstand the impact of a fully loaded Boeing 707, the nuclear power industry has boasted for four decades that reactor containment buildings could withstand a 747's direct hit.
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Means shall be provided for monitoring the reactor containment atmosphere, spaces containing components for recirculation of loss-of-coolant accident fluids, "'effluent discharge paths "', and the plant environs for radioactivity that may be released from normal operations, including anticipated operational occurrences, and from postulated accidents.
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(Title of thread changed from " Explosimeters : broader issues ) There has reportedly been a second hydrogen explosion at a Fukushima 1 nuke plant ( Unit 3, after the earlier Unit 1 explosion ), blowing off the masonry walls and roof around a reactor containment.
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No holes were cut in the Kursk's sixth compartment _ where the twin 190 megawatt reactors sit, still generating a low level of heat _ because the reactor containment vessels are so close to the hull that the huge lifting plugs could not be inserted without damaging them.
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