Sentences with phrase «emergency reactor shutdown»
Such electrical equipment and systems are classed as essential to emergency reactor shutdown, containment isolation, reactor core cooling, and containment and reactor heat removal, or otherwise are essential in preventing a significant release of radioactive material to the environment.
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NRC rules require that the electric cables that control reactor shutdown in the case of an emergency have fire insulation that lasts one hour.
While NRC concluded it did not pose a serious safety threat to the plant, it did disable one of the backup systems that would have to remove heat from the reactor in an emergency shutdown accompanied by a loss of outside power to the plant.
The emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor in northern Germany has thrust worries about atomic safety back on to the political agenda ahead of a national election that will decide the fate of the country's nuclear plants.
However, it was shutdown in 2001 after a rupture of a pipe connected to the emergency cooling system of the reactor core.