Sentence examples for backup pump from inspiring English sources

But a plant spokesman later said a backup pump was working.

Mr. Askew had vaulted over a railing onto a raft floating in the sewage, he said, and paddled to the plant's backup pump.

Furthermore, the backup pump was found to be out of operation again just over a year later, during a site inspection by the Environment Agency.

Three pumps are needed to cope with the volume of sewage at the works and the company was legally required to have at least one backup pump available.

A backup pump was used to divert water to the plant, and the breach was not expected to cause water shortages, said Aaron Kenneston, the emergency management officer in Washoe County, which includes Reno.

Later in the day, a backup pump to a third reactor ran out of fuel, causing water levels to fall so low that the fuel rods were fully exposed.

A backup sump pump system, preferably with at least a battery-operated pump, configured with a switch device to begin working if the main is out of commission, greatly reduces the chance of flood.

Install a backup sump pump.

Consider adding a battery backup sump pump system.

Some will work for a few hours but some state-of-the-art battery backup sump pump systems will have enough power to keep a basement from flooding under most circumstances.

Though the plant's reactors shut down automatically when the quake struck on Friday, the subsequent tsunami wiped out the backup electronic pumping and cooling system necessary to keep the fuel rods in the reactors and the storage pools for spent nuclear fuel covered with cool water.