Published 1976
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Multiple-barrier concrete containment without steel liner
Description
The difficulties of producing and testing the conventional type of pressure-containment structure makes it attractive to design a multiple-barrier system which dispenses with the steel liner. The French electricity generating authority is currently investigating a system based on an inner, prestressed concrete structure contained in a reinforced concrete outer structure, in which leak-tightness is provided by the concrete itself. Other advantages include reduced thermal stresses, greater freedom in construction and improved impact and blast resistance. Laboratory tests show that properly placed concrete has the required impermeability properties. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Mechanical Engineering Pub. Ltd. for Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
- Imprint Place
- London
- ISBN
- 0 85298 339 5
- Imprint Title
- Experience in the design, construction, and operation of prestressed concrete pressure vessels and containments for nuclear reactors
- Imprint Pagination
- p. 533-537.
Conference
- Title
- Conference on experience in the design, construction, and operation of prestressed concrete pressure vessels and containments for Nuclear Reactors.
- Dates
- 8 - 12 Sep 1975.
- Place
- York, UK.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Kingdom
- INIS RN
- 8313263
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CONTAINMENT BUILDINGS; CONTAINMENT SHELLS; IMPACT STRENGTH; LEAK TESTING; MATERIALS TESTING; PRESSURE VESSELS; PRESTRESSED CONCRETE; PWR TYPE REACTORS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STRESSES
- Descriptors DEC
- BUILDING MATERIALS; CONCRETES; CONTAINERS; CONTAINMENT; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; REACTORS; REINFORCED MATERIALS; TESTING; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS