Recent work has also demonstrated that at suitably low temperatures they can act as superconductors transmitting an electric current indefinitely, without power loss.
The so-called stress tests will be performed on Europe's 143 working reactors and other atomic installations and will consider a range of factors, including seismic activity, flooding, and power loss at reactors.
In a twist, Hurricane (or super storm) Sandy actually helped drive up Hollywood box office numbers this weekend in the Northeast, where kids were off school on Friday and people over the weekend were seeking entertainment refuge from a very bad week of flooding, power loss and devastation.
Mr. MOONEY: Yes, into loss of power and the loss of their relatives.
Utilizing the 7mm 2.5inch form-factor, the PX03AN series drives also offer power-loss protection.
Featuring a slim 7mm 2.5inch industry-standard form-factor, all capacities offer power-loss protection.
Toshiba is recalling 840, 000 batteries across a wide swath of their laptop lines, in addition to the 340, 000 they recalled a couple of weeks ago for an unrelated power-loss issue.
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The loss of power is compounded by a loss of consumer confidence, both at home and abroad.
Similarly, the state-owned electric-power company has been selling imported power at a loss.
Superconductors will permit faster trains and low-loss power transmission, he says.
The loss of power not only crippled the ship but also created smelly conditions.
With this loss of confidence, would come loss of political campaign funding, and inevitably, loss of power.
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Of course the dominant story was all about the disgusting sanitary conditions that resulted after the loss of power.
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They have faced the problem of making the same "hyper-redundant" mechanisms much smaller and without a loss of power or movement.
Each stage of converting and transmitting power results in a loss of efficiency, but with technological improvements these losses are being reduced.
He appeared to react initially to what he believed was a loss of power in the right-hand engine of the Cessna 404 Titan.
If you live in an area at risk of winter ice storms and blizzards, you need to be prepared for a loss of power.
John Murray, chair in Business Studies at Trinity College Dublin, points to a worrying loss of power by the carmakers, rather than the expected gain.
"Men's loss of power and control over women has made professional women particularly vulnerable, especially in male-dominated work environments and in public spaces, " writes Rasna Wahra for the Daily Nation.
"Any reactor in the country that is faced with a station blackout or a loss of power and a backup is not as well-positioned as the reactor in Japan, " said Mr. Lochbaum.
And we showed in very graphic terms how the water would top the levees and inundate the city, the way in which the pumps would fail because of the loss of power, and how the inundation would stay in the city because of its geography and geology.
On the rail network, Mr Hammond said night time "ghost trains" were being run in an attempt to keep lines open but "build up of ice on third rails across the Southeastern and Southern networks have led to loss of power and trains being stranded, causing severe delays and cancellations".
The deeper worry among Turkey's secular elite is not about creeping Islam but over a loss of power to an encroaching class of pious bureaucrats and entrepreneurs that has become increasingly visible since Turgut Ozal, a modernising former prime minister, liberalised the economy after the generals' third and most recent direct coup in 1980.
The loss of two power channels, however, could threaten science experiments and backup equipment.
After the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown, the country has imported more LNG to offset the loss in atomic power generation.
Some economists argue this makes no sense, despite the fear of a loss of pricing power to a Chinese monopsony.
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After the loss of internal power the spacecraft could only be tracked using the tiny radio transmitter in the lunar capsule.
Higher inflation means higher bond yields as investors demand a higher return to make up for their loss of purchasing power.
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