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  2. Westinghouse Atom Smasher - Wikipedia

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    The atom smasher was shut down so that Westinghouse could focus on the electronics department. [21] Many of the contributors to the Westinghouse project moved onto find other jobs during this period of shut down, but stayed closely connected to the nuclear research that was happening during the time. [21]

  3. Ivanpah Solar Power Facility - Wikipedia

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    To conserve scarce desert water, LPT 550 uses air-cooling to convert steam back into water. Compared to conventional wet-cooling, this results in a 90 percent reduction in water usage. The water is then returned to the boiler in a closed process. [21] Another potential issue is the effect of mirror glare on airplane pilots. [62]

  4. General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper - Wikipedia

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    On 18 September 2018, the USAF announced that an MQ-9 armed with an air-to-air missile successfully shot down a smaller target drone in November 2017. The drone was operated by the 432nd Wing. [ 73 ] While the destruction of a target drone is a routine USAF exercise, this event was the first instance of a Reaper destroying a small, maneuvering ...

  5. Black start - Wikipedia

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    Toronto during the Northeast blackout of 2003, which required black-starting of generating stations.. A black start is the process of restoring an electric power station, a part of an electric grid or an industrial plant, to operation without relying on the external electric power transmission network to recover from a total or partial shutdown.

  6. Induction generator - Wikipedia

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    Typical connections when used as a standalone generator. In induction generators, the reactive power required to establish the air gap magnetic flux is provided by a capacitor bank connected to the machine in case of stand-alone system and in case of grid connection it draws reactive power from the grid to maintain its air gap flux. For a grid ...

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  8. List of hydroelectric power station failures - Wikipedia

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    The power house was damaged due to an Indian Air Force raid during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The 1000 MW hydro project was temporarily out of service. 1971 [5] Banqiao Dam: Henan China: 1975 Banqian Dam failure: 26,000 dead from flooding, 145,000 dead from subsequent famine and epidemics, 11 million homeless.

  9. Northeast blackout of 2003 - Wikipedia

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    According to the official analysis of the blackout prepared by the US and Canadian governments, more than 508 generating units at 265 power plants shut down during the outage. In the minutes before the event, the NYISO-managed power system was carrying 28,700 MW of load. At the height of the outage, the load had dropped to 5,716 MW, a loss of 80%.