Even after the plant closed in early 2002, the problems continued: five members of a maintenance crew repairing the steam generators left the plant in March 2002 with microscopic radioactive particles on their clothes, carrying them to new job sites in South Carolina and Virginia.
Hence, the more wind power generators built, the more serious of the problem caused by having more wind power generators left idle.
Regional power companies continue to use old generators, leaving more efficient generators at the national power stations idle or underused.
Both depend heavily on natural gas to run their generators, leaving them vulnerable to soaring gas prices.
Soon after, a 45-foot-high tsunami wave inundated the plant and knocked out its backup diesel generators, leaving insufficient emergency power to keep cooling water flowing through the reactor cores.
The grid will still exist, but customers will be using insufficient amounts of power to necessitate traditional generators, leaving solar farms to fill the gap.
However if the generator is left open circuit, a voltage of \scriptstyle 2V appears at the generator output terminals as in figure 3. The same situation pertains if a very short transmission line is inserted between the generator and the open circuit.
A small generator was left behind, but its gasoline had been siphoned off by the thieves.
It is loaded with virtual neurons, the initial strength of whose synapses with one another is allocated by a random number generator, and left to get on with things.
