reactor vessel

American  

noun

1. the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.

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Example Sentences

The reactor vessel, which holds the fuel, control rods, and coolant, lies at the center of a nuclear reactor building.

From Literature

In an emergency, the containment should trap gases that might escape from the inner chambers, but we rely on the reactor vessel to keep a nuclear reaction—and the radiation it produces—contained.

From Literature

The steel reactor vessel at the heart of each reactor building is surrounded by a thick concrete containment vessel, designed to hold radioactive materials that might escape from the reactor in an emergency.

From Literature

Although they did not know it then, the steel reactor vessel had been breached, and the radioactive fuel was oozing into the drywell, the open space in the primary containment chamber.

From Literature

But March 13, 2011, wasn’t a normal day—the water in the reactor was gone, corium had melted through the reactor vessel, and the primary containment had been breached.

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