Sentence examples for failure of cooling from inspiring English sources

The explosions, fires and radioactive releases from Daiichi are resulting from the failure of cooling water pumps following the loss of electricity.

There are numerous causes of overpressure, such as exposure to fire, excessive process heat input, failure of flow, pressure or temperature control valves or devices, unexpected process chemical reactions, failure of cooling water supply, and failure of heat exchanger tubes.

But Tokyo Electric Power, operators of the Fukushima plant, had numerous warnings, including a report by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 1990, which "identified earthquake-induced diesel generator failure and power outage leading to failure of cooling systems as one of the most likely causes of nuclear accidents from an external event".

The LOCA is identified to be the failure of cooling channels in the stiffening grid, in the FW or in the breeder unit.

The reasons for these differences are not clear, but the failure of Cool-1 knockdown to alter outcomes in our experiments was consistently observed.

Failure of the cooling systems allowed pressure to build up beyond the design capacity of the reactors.

A relevant set of criteria are identified in order to find the prior conditions for a thermal runaway: failure of the cooling system, critical temperature threshold, successive derivatives of the temperature (first and second namely) vs. time and no detection in due time (reaction time) of the runaway initiation.

It is followed by an enormous tsunami that causes a total loss of power, a failure of the cooling systems, the ensuing hydrogen explosions at the nuclear plant and charged debate over the withdrawal of workers from the plant.

But the tsunami also produced a failure of the cooling system in such a massive way that it could not be readily remedied.

TOKYO, Japan -- The walls of a building at nuclear power station crumbled Saturday as smoke poured out and Japanese officials said they feared the reactor could melt down following the failure of its cooling system in a powerful earthquake and tsunami.

Japan's health ministry said on Tuesday that a construction worker's leukemia was likely caused by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which suffered a catastrophic failure of its cooling systems after being hit by a powerful tsunami in 2011.