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Reinforced concrete buildings that have a leak tight liner. and the idea behind the containment is really if you have whats called a design basis accident where you have a partial melting of the core, but dont have any catastrophic explosion, that that containment will function to limit radiation releases. unfortunately after most reactors operating today were designed and built, they discovered that well, there are certain types of events that could challenge the containment and theyre not impo...

Environment is a concern. i understand the logic behind controlled venting at this point and i think we all hope it is going to work because if theres a catastrophic rupture of the containment and large scale corn melt, we could be facing something like they are noble as opposed to something like three mile island. at three mile island as bad as it was, they were able to avert a full scale containment failure, and there was a release of radiation but comparatively small. but of course, youre dea...

Release some of the pressure by venting some radioactive gas now and avoid a larger catastrophe later. so it is really a devils bargain, but of course the radiation exposure resulting from moderate venting is going to be a lot less than if this accident actually progresses to a worst case where we have a full scale corn melt, and then a catastrophic rupture of containment. >> to be clear about that venting, that essentially is a controlled, deliberate release of some amount of radiation, and obv...