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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]
The Westinghouse Combustion Turbine Systems Division (CTSD), part of Westinghouse Electric Corporation's [1] Westinghouse Power Generation [2] group, was originally located, along with the Steam Turbine Division (STD), in a major industrial manufacturing complex, referred to as the South Philadelphia Works, in Lester, Pennsylvania near to the Philadelphia International Airport.
The plant was shut down in 2013 after defects were found in replacement steam generators; it is currently in the process of being decommissioned. The 2.2 GW of electricity supply lost when the plant shut down was replaced with 1.8 GW from new natural-gas-fired power plants and 250 MW from energy-storage projects. [6]
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Before mains electricity and the formation of nationwide power grids, stationary engines were widely used for small-scale electricity generation.While large power stations in cities used steam turbines or high-speed reciprocating steam engines, in rural areas petrol/gasoline, paraffin/kerosene, and fuel oil-powered internal combustion engines were cheaper to buy, install, and operate, since ...
A launch abort to Easter Island sets off the events of Lee Correy's 1981 novel Shuttle Down. A detailed RTLS maneuver is depicted in astronaut Mike Mullane's 1993 technothriller novel Red Sky: A Novel of Love, Space, & War. The use of the inflight crew escape system (ICES) was depicted in the 2000 sci-fi film Space Cowboys.
Predator operators at Balad Camp Anaconda, Iraq, August 2007. Each Predator air vehicle can be disassembled into six modules and loaded into a container. This enables all system components and support equipment to be rapidly deployed worldwide. The largest component is the ground control station (GCS) which is designed to roll into a C-130 ...
A standby generator is a back-up electrical system that operates automatically. [1] Within seconds of a utility outage an automatic transfer switch senses the power loss, commands the generator to start and then transfers the electrical load to the generator. The standby generator begins supplying power to the circuits. [2]