Sentence examples for reactor down from inspiring English sources

New "passive safety" features can shut a reactor down in an emergency without the need for human intervention.

We would have to shut the reactor down, and we would have to do alternative cooling techniques, which we have available to us.

That raised the possibility that a fire there could force the operators to abandon the control room and shut the reactor down from a remote location.

It now landed on the building containing the reactor that was producing the Nagasaki plutonium, and shut the reactor down.

Until the North shut the reactor down in 2007 in a short-lived nuclear disarmament deal with the United States, the reactor's spent fuel was the country's source of plutonium fuel for weapons.

At the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, which favors shutting the reactor down, James Moore, the clean energy program director, predicted that Entergy would keep operating the plant in the short term "despite their threats to the contrary".

Asked about burying the reactors in sand and concrete, Nishiyama said: "That solution is in the back of our minds, but we are focused on cooling the reactors down".

A reactor shut down.

The Obrigheim nuclear reactor closed down on May 11.

"Now, every hour they gain in keeping the reactor cooling down is crucial," he said.

With its main nuclear research reactor shut down, RHIC is Brookhaven's biggest and fanciest toy.