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  • ...vironment due to Pressurized Thermal Shock (PTS) fracturing the embrittled RPV, causing a Loss-of-Coolant-Accident (LOCA), core meltdown, and containment ...tion bombardment impacting impurities - such as nickel and copper - in the RPV walls and welds. The age-related degradation at Palisades has been so bad,
    5 KB (684 words) - 15:43, 8 December 2014
  • ...2/06/weld-Agarwal.pdf</ref> The NPCIL and AERB later on admitted that the RPV has four welds at the core-region, its life time is 40 years and its CDF is | '''RPV''' || Reactor Pressure Vessel
    46 KB (6,762 words) - 16:14, 4 May 2016
  • ...as of October 8, 2016</ref>; Belarusian politicians announced the damaged RPV to be replaced<ref>http://atom.belta.by/ru/belaes_ru/view/belarus-prinjala-
    27 KB (3,930 words) - 14:11, 8 October 2016
  • ...elt-through of the core - molten [[corium]] completely flowing through the RPV into the PCV, before maybe being stopped by the several meters of concrete
    136 KB (20,084 words) - 11:36, 28 September 2019