RE: NPP containment strength

["Mercado, Don" <don.mercado@LMCO.COM>]

Maybe with some of the NPPs being decommissioned, a real jet crash test

could be conducted on a real containment building.



> -----Original Message-----

> From:	Keith Welch [SMTP:welch@jlab.org]

> Sent:	Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:06 AM

> To:	radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject:	Re: NPP containment strength

> 

> 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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