"Try to keep between them and the reactor containment," I told them.
Nuclear Electric says there is no safety risk although it would want to prevent leaks within the reactor containment.
There's a double-airlock entrance to the reactor containment building down there.
The percussive force could shatter reactor containment and allow the radiation inside to pour out.
The reactor containment is usually made up of two barriers.
To relieve this pressure, the workers vented the steam into the reactor containment.
As this process continued, pressure in the reactor containment increased.
In a telephone interview, he added that it was clear that the reactor containment would not be the only possible target.
A fourth plant at Savannah River has been shut down indefinitely since mid-1985 because of a crack in the reactor containment.
Main building and reactor containment is designed by Atomenergoproekt.