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This chapter gives simple guidelines on how to compute the pressure inside containment in a nuclear power plant, or of any reservoir filled initially with inert gas, if steam from high pressure reservoirs placed inside the containment is escaping.
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Kolev, N.I. (2015). Containment Thermal-Hydraulics. In: Multiphase Flow Dynamics 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15156-4_18
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