Sentence examples for plant malfunction from inspiring English sources

It sounded like a pressing plant malfunction; scores of fans returned the record.

Especially after Sept. 11, many environmentalists and politicians have called to have the plant closed, warning that a terrorist attack or a plant malfunction could be catastrophic, spewing radiation many miles around the plant, which is 30 miles from Manhattan.

An economic crisis does not ensue, but back-to-back emergencies on "The West Wing" — a nuclear power plant malfunction and a dispute in Kazakhstan — bring to mind the election-defining qualities of the actual economic crisis.

A new alarm system design method is proposed, in which it is assumed that the sign patterns and alarm sequences generated by the alarm system are invariant for each possible plant malfunction in a plant.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01322.002 Ionizing radiation (IR) is encountered humans in the form of medical X-rays and tumor irradiation, and very rarely in the context of nuclear power plant malfunction.

The Mamaroneck sewage treatment plant malfunctioned last Sunday night, releasing 500,000 gallons of inadequately treated wastewater into Long Island Sound, county officials said.

The undeniably urgent imperative to reduce carbon emissions should not blind us to the ever-present potential for catastrophe from nuclear power plant malfunctions.

The proposed method gives the most sets yet provided of plant malfunctions that operators can distinguish using the alarm system.

As excessive water in soil existed, plant malfunctions, such as disturbance in hormone signals, oxidative damage, and the accumulation of toxic products of anaerobic metabolism due to anoxia in the rhizosphere, can occur [ 42, 43], as well as decreases in phloem transport [ 34, 44].

One by one, Lyons collects some of the 8 million plastic treatment disks released by a wastewater plant that malfunctioned in March 2011.

Blue petunias, they found, have genetic mutations that make two pumps inside the plants' cells malfunction.