containment

Example Sentences

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"The whole plant can get simpler. We don't need to have several feet thick of concrete and steel line containment," said Yasir Arafat, President and CTO of Aalo Atomics.

From Barron's • Jun. 28, 2026

"As a still developing country we have limited containment capacity... Our public health sector is in shambles," said a nurse in Nairobi, who asked for anonymity.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

She hurried back as the fires broke containment, but her absence, which her social media posts seemed to obscure, became the symbol of a disorganized response to the disaster.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

The “zoo,” in which otherworldly lifeforms such as socket-seeking eye midges and toxic gas ticks are kept, is a smaller version of Prodigy’s containment lab on Earth.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

Although they did not know it then, the steel reactor vessel had been breached, and the radioactive fuel was oozing into the drywell, the open space in the primary containment chamber.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland