Sentences with phrase «moderator temperature»

At higher power levels, the moderator temperature coefficient was only mildly negative, and, thus, was not able to turn the significant power rise resulting from the temperature spike at the time of incident initiation.

The Chernobyl design had a positive moderator temperature coefficient at low powers.

Normally, it is a very controlled process defendant on specific feedbacks, such as a negative moderator temperature coefficient.

Not exact matches

Methane is an important moderator of the Earth's atmospheric temperature.

Others are hoping to find temperature moderators — such as a certain species or geologic feature — that might protect reefs from the heat even as temperatures rise.

Last time it was building a reactor with a positive temperature coefficient, using combustible moderator — now that won't happen again, count on it.

As the temperature dropped and rain began to fall, the group retired to the porch of a neighboring home for a short Q&A; session, with local environmentalist Filiz Telek, one of the event organizers and the moderator of the Permakultur Istanbul online discussion group, translating Read's comments into Turkish as needed.

If the moderators will permit a partial repost of a comment I made in another thread — somewhat relevant to «Doing it yourselves» climatology — Menne et al http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/menne-etal2010.pdf, following the pioneering work done by Anthony Watts and his surfacestations.org volunteers, found ``... no evidence that the CONUS average temperature trends are inflated due to poor station siting.»