Sentence examples for reactor emergency from inspiring English sources

The core has a negative temperature reactivity feedback, a hard-fast neuron energy spectrum, and independent reactor emergency shutdown (ESD) and control (RC) systems.

This paper presents an iterative four-step risk-informed methodology to guide the design of future-reactor systems using a gas-cooled fast reactor emergency core cooling system as an example.

A passive flow controller or a fluidic device (FD) is used for a safety injection system (SIS) for efficient use of nuclear reactor emergency cooling water since it can control the injection flow rate in a passive and optimal way.

Take for example the powerful 9.0 earthquake and the resulting tsunami and nuclear reactor emergency that occurred this month in Japan.

A final blow struck in 2011 with the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan, caused by a tsunami that disabled the reactors' emergency backup generators.

The reactor's emergency cooling system consists of the natural circulation of air.

For instance, although there are fewer mechanical components in the steam cycle of a BWR design, additional components are required to support the reactor's emergency core-cooling system.

Four essential pipes that are closer to the surface — two carrying fuel for the reactor's emergency diesel generators and two carrying air used to power equipment at the plant — are suspended near the center of the trench, forming obstacles to be assiduously avoided.

Various types of systems are used to control the reactivity and shutting down of a nuclear reactor during emergency and routine shutdown operations.

While daily news footage of exploding reactor buildings, emergency workers dressed like spacemen, and officials sweeping radiation detectors over children's bodies have disappeared, the impact of Fukushima continues.

The nuclear commission even threatened to shut down the reactors unless emergency preparations were improved, but later dropped the threat.