secondary containment

collocation in English

meaningsofsecondaryandcontainment

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secondary
adjective
uk
/ˈsek.ən.dri/us
/ˈsek.ən.der.i/
less important than ...
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containment
noun[U]
uk
/kənˈteɪn.mənt/us
/kənˈteɪn.mənt/
the act of controlling or limiting something or ...
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(Definition ofsecondaryandcontainmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Secondarycontainmentprocedures ensure that only a small proportion of this release will reach the atmosphere.
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The term "secondarycontainment" usually refers to an outer, sealed, low-leakage building which houses the reactor core and primary coolant circuits.
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For this reason, in this country a water-cooled reactor would be required to have a third barrier in the form of a containment building, orsecondarycontainment.
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Can he confirm that a graphite moderated reactor in the station, comprising four light water reactors without, apparently, anysecondarycontainment, has been on fire for several days?
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The core was surrounded by a heavy concrete shield which also served as asecondarycontainmentvessel.
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Thesecondarycontainmentincludes the top floor with water-filled pools for storing fresh or irradiated fuel and for storage of irradiated tools and structures.
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Generation of hydrogen during the process would probably result in an explosion, damaging thesecondarycontainmentbuilding.
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Thesecondarycontainmentitem must be able to hold 110% of the largest container above.
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To minimize the risk of leakage, and for the sake of containing a catastrophic spill, all fuel bladders should be housed insecondarycontainment.
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Both the drywell and the wetwell are enclosed by asecondarycontainmentbuilding, maintained at a slight sub-atmospheric or negative pressure during normal operation and refueling operations.
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The tanks were placed over the sumps and hard piping over the trenches, allowing the initial sumps and trenches to serve assecondarycontainmentfor the upgraded equipment.
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A relief valve control circuit failed during a test of the fire control system, and oil poured into a tank and overflowed onto asecondarycontainmentarea.
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