Reactor pressure vessel

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A reactor pressure vessel (RPV) in a nuclear power plant is the pressure vessel containing the nuclear reactor coolant, core shroud, and the reactor core.

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Image: Photographer Unknown, U.S. Department of Energy, Naval Reactors Program, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.