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- A dry well or drywell is an underground structure that disposes of unwanted water, most commonly surface runoff and stormwater, in some cases greywater...
- containment consists of a drywell, where the reactor and ****ociated cooling equipment is located, and a wetwell. The drywell is much smaller than a PWR...
- event of a transient requiring the quenching of steam), as well as the drywell, the elimination of the heat exchanger, the steam dryer, the distinctive...
- cylindrical wetwell below the non-reactor cavity section of the drywell. Both the wetwell and the drywell have a primary containment structure of steel as in the...
- containment as used in units 1 to 5.: 25  RPV: reactor pressure vessel DW: drywell enclosing reactor pressure vessel WW: wetwell – torus-shaped all around...
- used to try to cool the suppression pool and drywell in addition to the reactor to prevent the drywell pressure from getting too high. Operators were...
- caused a safety valve to open, admitting steam and water into the drywell causing drywell pressure to increase. This caused the initiation of safety injection...
- other BWRs, the actual containment vessel for the reactor is a separate drywell/torus structure enclosed within the reactor building, but structurally...
- rods. Prepressurized at 5 standard atmospheres (510 kPa) with helium. A drywell containment building which resembles an inverted lightbulb above the wetwell...
- carbonate content of approximately 4 weight percent was ****umed for the lower drywell floor. American National Standard, ANSI N18.2, "Nuclear Safety Criteria...