Sentence examples for functioning plants from inspiring English sources

Four years ago, President George Bush urged the NSG to bar the sale of uranium and plutonium technologies to any country that at the time did not already possess "full-scale, functioning" plants.

Four years later, just after the accident on Three Mile Island, a referendum was held in which two-thirds of voters agreed that nuclear power should be phased out gradually; the rest favoured doing so more quickly.Even at the time, nobody thought this non-binding vote required the early closure of functioning plants; in fact, six plants came on stream after it.

You can walk right up to the walls of the reactor to areas which, in functioning plants, would be radioactive.

Their plan at the moment is to divert millions of gallons of sewage from a poorly functioning plant in Yorktown to a treatment plant in Peekskill, where it would be cleaned and dumped into the Hudson River.

The 400 workers at the only functioning plant, meanwhile, will either be transferred out of the plant or laid off by November.

Natural colonization or self-design may reestablish a functioning plant community but may lack key plant species (e.g., Carex and other sedges) found in natural marshes.

Since the Daiichi plant's construction in the late 1960s, engineers had approached higher-ups to discuss refortifying the at-risk reactors, but these requests were denied due to concerns over renovation costs and an overall lack of interest in upgrading what was, at the time, a functioning plant.

Without single organs or centralised functions plants may tolerate predation without losing functionality.

Plant trichomes are special organs frequently functioning as plant defense.

In contrast to the normal phenotype of the Arabidopsis atmkp1 mutant, osmkp1 loss-of-function plants show a semi-dwarf phenotype.

This screen yielded a mutant whose phenotype resembled that of fil loss-of-function plants [ 25- 27].