Sentence examples for withstand events from inspiring English sources
WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Thursday that it had rejected a design by Westinghouse for a new reactor because a key component might not withstand events like earthquakes and tornadoes.
The chairman, Gregory Jaczko, said on the C-Span program "Newsmakers" that these preparations give an "extra sense of certainty" about the ability to withstand events beyond what the plant was designed for.
The term Robustness is defined as the "ability of a structure to withstand events like fire, explosions, impact or the consequences of human error, without being damaged to an extent disproportionate to the original cause" (CEN 2002).
A key element in the safety of any Nuclear Research Reactor design is the evaluation of the reactor's ability to withstand events that could reasonably be postulated to occur and, if unmitigated, could lead to core damage or radionuclides releases to the atmosphere.
Designing resilient engineered systems that can sense and withstand adverse events and recover from the effects of the adverse events is increasingly seen as an important goal of engineering design.
This finding suggests that this internal personal characteristic serves as a protective factor following exposure to a stressful event, as suggested in the literature, 37 and can help individuals withstand traumatic events.
Mrs Thatcher had two qualities which enabled her to withstand everything events threw at her.
No reactors will restart until they pass stress tests - designed to gauge their ability to withstand catastrophic events such as a tsunami and introduced after the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi power plant in March 2011.
All but two of the country's 54 reactors are currently closed for maintenance checks, and will not be permitted to restart unless they pass tests of their ability to withstand catastrophic events and win approval from host communities spooked by the Fukushima accident.
The power plant piping is designed to withstand seismic events using the design fatigue curve.
The electric reef may also make the corals fitter and better able to withstand warming events, perhaps because the creatures waste less energy on making their skeletons.
