Sentences with phrase «plant operators did»

For example, an Associated Press investigation in March revealed 24 cases from December 2009 to September 2010 in which plant operators did not report equipment defects to the NRC.

In the cafeteria, for example, our plant operator does not hesitate to correct students, and some of our teachers eat with students and lend a hand to maintaining decorum.»

Currently fossil - fuel generation is cheaper than most non-CO2 producing types, largely because the plant operators don't have to pay to dispose of their waste products.

Not exact matches

During the old regime, «you didn't even talk to management,» says Tim Blevins, a press operator who has worked at the plant for 15 years, under the previous ownership and the present one.

In addition to good pay, it is also a satisfying job and generally well respected, designing something so that Plant Operators will be able to do their work more easily and safely.

Daily or weekly inspections, cleaning and lubrication are as necessary on a packaging line as they are in an assembly plant, and can usually be done by the operators.

The operators of the nearest sewer treatment plants to Niagara Falls say they would never find themselves in a position to blacken the Niagara River as the Niagara Falls plant did last Saturday.

Most of the nuclear facilities currently operating in America don't have them, and few of the operators of the older plants would opt to build them because of the cost, N.R.C. spokesman Neil Sheehan said.

Cuomo said if the board does not cooperate, the DEC will replace the plant operator.

He added that the plant operators have been issued a violation for noise pollution, but stressed that there is not much the local government can do.

Exelon Corp., the plant's operator, punted last October on a decision to close the plant, but previously said if it didn't get to raise electric rates for customers by May 31, it would shut down the money - losing facility by 2017.

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

The plant's day shift operators knew that the two pumps had sucked in hose pieces, but «for unclear reasons,» operators did not record the pumps as inoperable in the control room log, which would have elevated awareness of the incident, the inspectors said.

The capacity market approach pays utilities and other operators billions of pounds to commit to keep their coal, gas, nuclear and hydro power plants open, for up to four years ahead, regardless of whether they were planning to do this anyway, and regardless of whether they generate any electricity.

Doing so is perfectly understandable: why try to keep a nuclear plant open that its operator plainly no longer wants?

If the operators do something really stupid to overheat the reactor, or the plant loses power, the freeze plug melts.

If merchant power plant operators couldn't make margins on the electric market and didn't foresee an uplift in the reasonable future, they needed to leave the market — and they did.

The company doesn't plan to deploy sensors that determine real - time power needs and allow operators to adjust production, thus avoiding running or building costly new power plants.

In doing so this paper aims at emphasising the need for policy makers, innovators and power plant operators to quickly complete the development of the CCS technology and to identify key countries where retrofit applications will have the biggest extent and impact.

In other words, from the grid operator's point of view, solar energy doesn't look like a power plant at all (those are controllable, or «dispatchable,» in the jargon), it looks like a reduction in demand.

Enhanced CO2 contributes to plant growth in greenhouses as does the control of fertilizer, watering, humidity, and temperature, which operators try to keep at optimum levels.