Sentences with phrase «control rod»

There are no real major obstacles in the game other than your ability to control the rod and reel.

Babcock also provides control rod drive mechanisms that manage the movement of control rods inside the nuclear reactors.

Annihilus would have seemingly killed Doom, though Doom would have returned later with armor crafted from Annihilus's carapace and Control Rod.

Annihilus also possesses the Cosmic Control Rod, which allows him to extend his life and augment his abilities.

These capabilities include critical heat flux testing, steam generator flow - induced vibration testing, and control rod assembly drop alignment testing, among others.

If something went wrong in the primitive reactor pile as the control rod was gradually removed, simply replacing it would have reversed the process.

At every step of the process Fermi calculated the expected neutron emission, and slowly removed a control rod to confirm his expectations.

On the day he died, along with 40 percent of the Hillary family, he had taken off in a plane with a control rod still locked in an aileron — effectively rendering the plane incapable of banking.

They operate or control nuclear reactors, move control rods, start and stop equipment, monitor and adjust controls, record data in logs, and implement emergency procedures when needed.

BUCHANAN, N.Y. — Officials say one of the Indian Point nuclear power plant's reactors in suburban New York has been shut down because several control rods lost power.

The reactor's designed to make a safe shutdown if the control rods lose electricity.

Control room operators safely shut down the Indian Point 2 reactor around 5:30 p.m., owner Entergy Corp. said in a statement, adding the reactor did what it's intended to do if control rods lose electricity.

To make sure they could safely control the chain reaction, the team rigged together what they called «control rods.»

The cadmium control rods made sure the process wouldn't continue indefinitely, because Fermi and his team could choose exactly how and where to insert them to control the chain reaction.

In case of an accident, multiple systems would keep cooling water flowing to the core, and control rods would quickly drop, automatically shutting down the nuclear reactions.

The physicists interspersed control rods through the uranium - graphite pile.

This is the case because even when fission is stopped by driving neutron - absorbing control rods into a reactor core, radioactivity still warms the fuel rods.

Nuclear reactors utilize control rods made from elements such as cadmium, boron or hafnium, all of which are efficient neutron absorbers.

Even after the control rods have done their job and arrested the fission reaction the fuel rods retain a great deal of heat.

When the reactor malfunctions or when operators need to shut off the reactor for any other reason technicians can remotely plunge control rods into the reactor core to soak up neutrons and shut down the nuclear reaction.

Though control rods have stopped the uranium fission process that drives normal operation of a nuclear reactor, the byproducts of that continue to split and generate heat.

Sixty - six computer - controlled rods filled with transmission fluid can each push with a force of 250 pounds against the mirror.

Finally, Bergeron summed up the events so far: «Based on what we understand, the reactor has been shut down, in the sense that all of the control rods have been inserted — which means there's no longer a nuclear reaction.

Once the reactor's control rods are between sections of fuel rods, how is fission slowed to where it is controllable?

It seems the control rods aren't adequate to regain control of the fission.

«Excellent,» enthused the boy from Leicester as he withdrew the control rods from the reactor.

Green says that if this happened to a tube at Sizewell B, there would still be 52 other sets of control rods to shut the reactor down.

Circular cracks had formed around several of these steel nozzles in the corroded lid that shield the control rods — 20 12 - inch -(30 - centimeter --RRB- long sticks made of a silver — indium — cadmium alloy that are used to dampen or shut down a nuclear reaction — rendering them vulnerable to simply popping off.

To prevent a runaway reaction, an ax wielder stood ready to literally chop the rope, which would drop the control rods and stop nuclear fission if a meltdown was imminent — so literally safety control rod ax man.)

In a report published last week, Greenpeace says the cracks could lead to a malfunction of the control rods.

Control rods will drop down into the reactor core if necessary to stop the nuclear fission chain reaction directly (see also Question 6).

With the help of the moderators and the control rods natural Uranium - 235 can be used for industrial purposes.

While the concept of control rods is common to most nuclear reactors, the PRISM reactor also includes a notably unique shutdown feature.

Sometimes, control rods are also used for slowing down the whole process in nuclear reactors.

The PRISM reactor design includes an Ultimate Shutdown System (USS), which can be manually actuated in the event that the reactor control rods can not be inserted into the core.

In order to shutdown the reactor quickly, the PRISM reactor includes control rods which can be inserted into the reactor core in order to absorb neutrons.

Slides also describe the roles of control rods, moderator and coolant in nuclear reactor cores.

We saw some weird shit, like a haptic armband that moves your fingers, an idol singer game you play with air traffic control rods, a surreal bathing simulator and a game where you grope a mannequin.

In nuclear reactors the control rods and fission poisons (like boron in the fuel rods) absorb neutrons to prevent a runaway reaction.

They were deliberately running a test with almost all the control rods out and removed from automatic control.

We need to metaphorically ram the control rods back into the reactor as soon and as hard as possible.

«It's not like they're positioning control rods in a nuclear reactor core.

Not exact matches

religion is what man created to control the masses using God as the rod....

She was as much in control of events as Moses had been with his supernatural rod.

Now if the Book of Revelation is what you want, with a Messiah who will kill enough people to create a massive river of blood five miles long, merely by an angry wave of his rod - shaped remote control, without any way of stopping him... that doesn't sound very good from a non-killing standpoint.

The head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Rod Sims, will investigate the two retailers - which between them control an estimated 70 per cent of the nation's grocery spending - about potential breaches of the law and bullying tactics against food and grocery suppliers.

Dr Katharine Kemp and Dr Rod Nicholls will lead the research stream «Data as a source of market power», focusing on the research question «can control of data create market power?»

Using motion - sensor technology, it gives a detailed printout about the rod's speed and angle over the course of a cast — feedback critical for casters to develop control over distance and placement.

As the mice aged, their motor performance on a rotarod test (which measures how long the mouse can remain on a rotating rod) became impaired and the length of their strides were significantly shorter than the wild type control mice.

The first hint that electricity controls the body came in the 1780s, when Italian physician Luigi Galvani connected severed frogs» legs to a lightning rod, showing that they twitched whenever lightning struck.