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- noun Plural form of
containment .
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Examples
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Tokyo Electric also announced that it would carry out controlled releases to ease pressure in the containments of all four units at Fukushima Daini.
Japanese nuclear plants' operator scrambles to avert meltdowns 2011
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It could reset randomly now that all of it's protective monitors and containments have been ripped apart.
TORCHWOOD: CoE Part 3...Spoilers rabid1st 2009
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But whether they can melt further through the containments and into the ground remains unclear.
Harvey Wasserman: Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages and We've Almost Lost Nebraska Harvey Wasserman 2011
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There is no doubt at least two containments were breached very early in the disaster.
Harvey Wasserman: Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages and We've Almost Lost Nebraska Harvey Wasserman 2011
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One nuclear regulator later said "I don't have the same warm feeling about GE containment that I do about the larger dry containments."
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Tokyo Electric also announced that it would carry out controlled releases to ease pressure in the containments of all four units at Fukushima Daini.
Japanese nuclear plants' operator scrambles to avert meltdowns 2011
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One nuclear regulator later said "I don't have the same warm feeling about GE containment that I do about the larger dry containments."
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Gender discrimination and all the other containments were, up to Burke's use of the family in his conservative polemic, constituent parts of this membership, not constraints upon it.
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More than two dozen US General Electric Mark I containments are rated as weaker than the structure that blew off Chernobyl Unit Four during its 1986 catastrophe.
Harvey Wasserman: America's Eggshell Nukes Harvey Wasserman 2010
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More than two dozen US General Electric Mark I containments are rated as weaker than the structure that blew off Chernobyl Unit Four during its 1986 catastrophe.
Harvey Wasserman: America's Eggshell Nukes Harvey Wasserman 2010
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