Re: NPP containment strength

[Keith Welch <welch@jlab.org>]

I remember seein an interesting set of photos (but can't remember the publication - Nuclear News, maybe) of a test of containment strength.  A large block of containment-type concrete was used as a target for a jet crash.  If I remember, something resembling a

fighter jet was "launched" along a track under jet power and slammed into the block at very high speed.  The jet disentigrated, and the block was barely scratched.  This is obviously not a thorough test of a complete structure, but it confirms the capability

of the structural material.





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Keith Welch

Radiation Protection Coordinator

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Newport News VA

welch@jlab.org

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