Sentence examples for off the reactor from inspiring English sources

If this is switched off, the reactor shuts down without any human intervention.

Those numbers are small relative to the 20,000 or so people killed by the tsunami that set off the reactor meltdowns, the researchers noted.

North Korea turned off the reactor at Yongbyon in July and pledged to disable it — but not dismantle it — by Dec. 31.

And if things get really bad, they could shut off the reactor all together - though Sheehan says there's no reason to do so yet.

Since the early 1990s, Ukrainian officials have been working on a plan to replace it, finally launching a project called the New Safe Confinement, a 300-foot steel arch that will enclose and seal off the reactor for the next 100 years.

When a routine test went catastrophically wrong, a chain reaction went out of control in No 4 reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, creating a fireball that blew off the reactor's 1,000-tonne 1,000-tonneoncrete lid.

The explosions seen on TV seemed to take the tops off of the reactor buildings.

Such systems cool the steam that comes off the reactors, creating water, which is pumped back into the reactors.

Here, Prof Krzysztof Stanczyk from the Central Mining Institute in Katowice shows off the reactors that have been built at the institute to simulate what he says are cleaner ways of burning coal.

The No. 4 reactor at Chernobyl was the site of a fire in April 1986 that blew off the top of the reactor, spewing radiation into the skies over most of Europe.

The safety rods are to be inserted into the core within a stipulated time during off-normal conditions of the reactor.