Common use of Containment Building Clause in Contracts

Containment Building. Each Unit has a Containment Building housing the reactor and reactor coolant system for such Unit. Each Containment Building is a Seismic Category I pre-stressed concrete cylinder with a hemispherical dome. The base mat is a flat circular slab of reinforced concrete. The interior of the structure is lined with a continuous, welded steel plate one quarter inch thick. The Containment Building has an approximate inside diameter of 106 feet and an inside height of 206.5 feet. The base mat has an approximate diameter of 161 feet and a thickness of 10.5 feet. Wall thickness varies from approximately 4 feet in the vertical walls to approximately 3.5 feet at the apex of the dome. Under the most severe of postulated loading conditions — including the combined effects of permanent loads, design basis Loss of Coolant Accident loads, and either the safe-shutdown earthquake or tornado loads — the Containment Building is designed to maintain its structural and leak-tight integrity. Together with isolation valves, penetration assemblies, and its continuous, welded-steel liner, the structure contains the released fission products and maintains a leak rate below the design leak rate levels. The Containment Building is designed to provide long-term control of fission products following an accident. Housed within the Containment Building and supported by the base mat are the reinforced concrete and structural steel internal structures which support the reactor and reactor coolant system. These internal structures, the reactor and reactor coolant system are not included in this financing.

Containment Building. Each Unit has a Containment Building housing the reactor and reactor coolant system for such Unit. Each Containment Building is a Seismic Category I pre-stressed concrete cylinder with a hemispherical dome. The base mat is a flat circular slab of reinforced concrete. The interior of the structure is lined with a continuous, welded steel plate one quarter inch thick. The Containment Building has an approximate inside diameter of 106 feet and an inside height of 206.5 feet. The base mat has an approximate diameter of 161 feet and a thickness of 10.5 feet. Wall thickness varies from approximately 4 feet in the vertical walls to approximately 3.5 feet at the apex of the dome. Under the most severe of postulated loading conditions — -- including the combined effects of permanent loads, design basis Loss of Coolant Accident loads, and either the safe-shutdown earthquake or tornado loads — -- the Containment Building is designed to maintain its structural and leak-tight integrity. Together with isolation valves, penetration assemblies, and its continuous, welded-steel liner, the structure contains the released fission products and maintains a leak rate below the design leak rate levels. The Containment Building is designed to provide long-term control of fission products following an accident. Housed within the Containment Building and supported by the base mat are the reinforced concrete and structural steel internal structures which support the reactor and reactor coolant system. These internal structures, the reactor and reactor coolant system are not included in this financing.