Sentence examples for automatic shutdown system from inspiring English sources

Khodemchuk was the night-shift manager on duty at 1 23 a.m. when the core started overheating during an experiment he was conducting and the reactor's automatic shutdown system did not respond.

The initial statement from officials state that an "abnormality" in the power systems triggered an automatic shutdown, an explanation, which the Guardian's Paolo Bandini notes "says precisely nothing".

Adding to the uncertainty, on Oct. 4 a reactor in Genkai, in southern Japan, went into automatic shutdown because of problems with its cooling system.

Because the earthquake moved the water in the reactors, the sensors indicated that the neutron population there was no longer distributed properly, and the system called for the automatic shutdown, Dominion officials say.

TOKYO — In a fresh blow to public confidence, a reactor in southern Japan went into automatic shutdown on Tuesday because of problems with its cooling system, clouding the outlook for an imminent restart of the country's idled nuclear plants.

A powerful earthquake shook all units at the plant, initiating an automatic shutdown, or scram.

4th generation reactors can include automatic shutdown in case of an earthquake or other interruption.

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.

Taf Powell, head of the investigation team, said "automatic shutdown did not take place" as it should have done.

If a control rod ejection accident happened at low power, the EPR's automatic shutdown mechanism could fail to operate, it indicated.