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• radioactive leakage — seepage of radioactive materials, leak of radioactivity …   English contemporary dictionary

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• Containment building — NRC drawing of containment building. A containment building, in its most common usage, is a steel or reinforced concrete structure enclosing a nuclear reactor. It is designed, in any emergency, to contain the escape of radiation to a maximum… …   Wikipedia