The phrase "automatic shutdown" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to technology, machinery, or systems that can turn off by themselves under certain conditions.
Example: "The system is designed to initiate an automatic shutdown if it detects overheating."
Alternatives: "self-shutdown" or "automatic power-off.".
4th generation reactors can include automatic shutdown in case of an earthquake or other interruption.
A powerful earthquake shook all units at the plant, initiating an automatic shutdown, or scram.
Taf Powell, head of the investigation team, said "automatic shutdown did not take place" as it should have done.
Kyushu Electric called it a small error and said that the automatic shutdown it triggered had gone smoothly.
In an automatic shutdown, control rods slide between the fuel rods and choke off the flow of neutrons.
When the level got too high in a part called a steam generator, it triggered the automatic shutdown of the turbine, which converts steam to mechanical energy.
An engineer working for a contractor at the Indian Point 2 nuclear plant has quit in a dispute over the reliability of the system that triggers automatic shutdowns during equipment failures, according to the company.
The sensor disconnected the transformer, according to plant officials, and that caused automatic shutdowns of the turbines — the devices that turn steam from the reactor into the rotary motion to turn a generator.
Concerns over radiation leakage, contaminated shellfish beds, improper ventilation, mishandled nuclear fuel rods and myriad, often unresolved automatic shutdowns of the plant, leave many to wonder how long an aging nuclear plant should be allowed to operate.
Despite concerns about high-voltage electrical systems in crashes, the battery packs on both cars were not damaged in the tests, and the automatic-shutdown features that disengage the batteries did their jobs.
A solid-state hard drive was used for data storage to prevent automatic computer shutdown at 0 Gz, which would be triggered by the laptop built-in free-fall sensor that would mistakenly indicate that the computer was falling down during the 0 Gz phases.
