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Reactor containment buildings are designed to contain internal pressures of 40 to 80 psi (275 to 550 kPa) and have been proven capable of shrugging off hits from F-4s traveling at hundreds of miles per hour. How well would the containment building fare as a bomb or fallout shelter?

Some of the scenarios would be as a shelter for people who happened to be at or near the site during an air raid or nuclear attack, or an organization taking over the building for use as a hardened fortress (criminals, rebels, etc.). A unit with fuel in or near the reactor probably wouldn't make a very good long term shelter because the fuel would meltdown, but what if the unit had never received fuel, never went critical, or was never completed?
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