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Turn it to the off setting and wait about 5 to 10 minutes for any excess gas to dissipate, then turn the switch to pilot to trigger the flow of gas. Hold the reset button or use a long match to ...
Thermal switches on microprocessors often stop only the fetching of instructions to execute, reducing the clock rate to zero until a lower temperature is reached, while maintaining power to the cache to prevent data loss (although a second switch, with a higher triggering temperature, usually turns off even the cache and forces the computer to ...
Standing loss, or standing losses, is a non-technical term to define energy losses in a system, usually associated with heat and hot water storage systems. It is the amount of energy lost through heat transfer to the surrounding environment; as such it is directly related to how well insulated a system is.
For this reason, at the moment of reactor shutdown, decay heat will be about 6.5% of the previous core power if the reactor has had a long and steady power history. About 1 hour after shutdown, the decay heat will be about 1.5% of the previous core power. After a day, the decay heat falls to 0.4%, and after a week it will be only 0.2%.
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Power outages are categorized into three different phenomena, relating to the duration and effect of the outage: A transient fault is a loss of power typically caused by a fault on a power line, e.g. a short circuit or flashover. Power is automatically restored once the fault is cleared. A brownout is a drop in voltage in an electrical power ...
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