Sentence examples for plant technicians from inspiring English sources

Behind locked doors and armed security at the Indian Point nuclear plant, technicians in hard hats and safety glasses watch over a pair of turquoise pools that have become an interim grave for radioactive waste.

Re-establishing normal cooling of the reactors would require restoring electric power — which was cut in the earthquake and tsunami — and now may require plant technicians working in areas that have become highly contaminated with radioactivity.

Elsewhere in the plant, technicians performed extensive maintenance, more thorough, managers said, than in the old days, because of a greater emphasis on running "breaker to breaker," from the time the electrical switch is thrown to connect the plant to the grid again to the time the plant is disconnected, in 24 months.

Solar energy systems engineers, informatics nurse specialists, and biomass plant technicians are other new and emerging occupational titles.

The union, Local 1-2 of the Utility Workers Union of America, represents 290 nuclear plant operators, technicians and maintenance and clerical workers at the plant, which Entergy Nuclear, a unit of the Entergy Corporation, recently bought from the New York Power Authority.

TOKYO — The Tokyo Electric Power Company announced plans on Friday to distribute $600 million in initial payments to 50,000 people evacuated because of the accident at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as technicians continued to struggle to repair cooling and electrical systems at the damaged reactors.

Highly automated machines now administer drugs to hospital patients, produce intricate semiconductors and operate power plants, transforming technicians from machine operators into supervisory controllers.

The bulk of research money is spent on a handful of commodity crops, particularly corn and soybeans, for which private companies enlist battalions of highly educated plant breeders, geneticists, laboratory technicians and other skilled workers in research and development.

I qualified as an Engineering Officer of the Watch (a guy who's in charge of the plant and its other technicians during four-hour shifts) on two different sub reactors.

Lexus plant workers, typically veteran technicians, are identified via repeated performance evaluations and ranked according to skill grade, with limited applicants accepted.

Today, there is a strong emphasis on giving communities responsibility for plants, training local support technicians, and helping villagers build up small businesses to increase incomes and electricity demand to make plants financially viable.