- •Physical and mathematical sciences
- •Grammar: The Adjective and the Participle as an Attribute
- •Word List:
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 2 Grammar: The Simple Predicate Word List:
- •Particle Simulations of the spt
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 3 Grammar: Modal Verbs – would, should, could. The Inversion Word List:
- •Controlling Robots with the Mind
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 4 Grammar: The Complex Sentences Word List:
- •Magnetron Sputtering
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 5 Grammar: The Passive Voice Word List:
- •Particle-Induced Turbulence Attenuation
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 6 Grammar: The Impersonal Construction. The Passive Voice Word List:
- •Tritium Pellet Injector Results
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 7 Grammar: The Attribute Word List:
- •Fundamental Characteristics of a Fluid
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 8 Grammar: The Gerund Word List:
- •Enhancing Film Condensation Heat Transfer
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 9 Grammar: The Infinitive. The Passive Voice. The ing-forms Word List:
- •Effects of Welding Parameters on Hard Zone Formation at Dissimilar Metal Welds
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 10 Grammar: The modal verb. The Passive Voice Word List:
- •Measurement and Analysis of Ultrasonic Beam Profiles in a Solid
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 11 Grammar: The Infinitive. The Passive Voice Word List:
- •Review of Magnetic Methods for Nondestructive Evaluation (nde)
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 12 Grammar: Simple, Progressive and Perfect Tenses. The Infinitive Word List:
- •Impact of New Magnetoresistive Materials on Magnetic Recording Heads
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 13 Grammar: The Gerund Word List:
- •Progress in Membrane Science and Technology for Seawater Desalination
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 14 Grammar: The Passive Voice Word List:
- •Asymptotic Methods in Turbulent Combustion
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 15 Grammar: The verbs “to be”, “to have”. Modal Verbs Word List:
- •Membranes and Microorganisms
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 16 Grammar: Modal Verbs Word List:
- •What Materials Are Suitable as Polymer Electrolytes?
- •Focused Practice
- •Electrical engineering and electromechanics
- •Unit 17
- •Grammar: The Noun as an Attribute
- •Word List:
- •Fatigue Cracks in Turbine Discs
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 18 Grammar: The Passive Voice Word List:
- •The Split Shaft Design
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 19 Grammar: Non-finite forms of the Verb. The Complex Sentences Word List:
- •Evaluating Individual Losses
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 20 Grammar: The Infinitive. The Infinitive Constructions. The Passive Voice Word List:
- •Expert Systems for Fluid Power
- •Unit 21 Grammar: The Infinitive. Split Infinitives Word List:
- •Expert Systems. Other Useful Features
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 22 Grammar: Word-building. The Conjunctional and Prepositional Phrases Word List:
- •The Calculation of a Last Stage Low Pressure Steam Turbine and Exhaust Hood Flow
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 23 Grammar: The Passive Voice. Word-building Word List:
- •Three-Stage Steam Turbine Flow Analysis
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 24 Grammar: The Passive Voice. Modal Verbs Word List:
- •Thermal Computer Aided Design – Advancing the Revolution in Compact Motor
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 25 Grammar: The Infinitive Word List:
- •Demonstration of a Microfabricated High-Speed Turbine Supported on Gas Bearings
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 26 Grammar: The Participle. The Absolute Participle Construction Word List:
- •Variable Speed Drives
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 27 Grammar: The Participle. The Gerund. The Infinitive Word List:
- •Steam Chemistry and the Turbine
- •Focused Practice
- •Computer sience
- •Unit 28
- •Grammar: The Infinitive Constructions
- •Word List:
- •Department of Defense Selects ibm Supercomputer for Navy to Triple Computing Power
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 29 Grammar: Word-Building Word List:
- •Mobility Management for VoIp Service: Mobile ip vs sip
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 30 Grammar: The Infinitive. The Participle Word List:
- •Mobile Software Agents for Decentralised Network and Systems Management
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 31 Grammar: The Impersonal Constructions. The Emphatic Constructions Word List:
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 32 Grammar: The Subjunctive Mood. Conditional Sentences Word List:
- •Wise Drives
- •Focused Practice
- •Energetics and power engineering
- •Unit 33
- •Grammar: The Infinitive. The Elliptic Sentences
- •Word List:
- •Tools for Dynamic Analysis of the General Large Power System Using Time - Varying Phasers
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 34 Grammar: The Infinitive Constructions Word List:
- •Energy Problems and Nuclear Power Development in Japan
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 35 Grammar: The Passive Voice Word List:
- •Large–Scale Economic Integration of Electricity from Short-Rotation Woody Crops
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 36 Grammar: The Present Perfect Tense Word List:
- •Streamer Dynamics
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 37 Grammar: The Present Progressive Tense Word List:
- •High Temperature Superconducting Current Limiting Series Reactor
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 38 Grammar: The Participle Word List:
- •Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Techniques in Electric Power Systems Expansion Planning
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 39 Grammar: The ing- and ed- forms as Parts of Speech. Their Functions in a Sentence Word List:
- •Cogeneration and On-Site Production
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 40 Grammar: The Attribute Word List:
- •Petersburg Combined Cycle
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 41 Grammar: The Infinitive, the Gerund, the Participle Word List:
- •How Nuclear Power Works
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 42 Grammar: Non-finite Forms of the Verb. The Infinitive Constructions. The Passive Voice Word List:
- •Big Plans for Ocean Power Hinge on Funding and Additional r&d
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 43 Grammar: Non-finite Forms of the Verb Word List:
- •At pressure reducing stations
- •Focused Practice
- •Management, economics and labour protection
- •Unit 44
- •Grammar: The Adverbial Modifier
- •Word List:
- •Foreign Exchange
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 45 Grammar: The Inversion. The Present Perfect Tense. The Present Simple Tense (usage) Word List:
- •Temperature Changes in Canada
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 46 Grammar: The Passive Voice Word List:
- •Environmental Tobacco Smoke
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 47 Grammar: The Adjective. The Suffixes: -tive; -al; -ic; - able; -ant; -ent Word List:
- •Mathematical Challenges in Spatial Ecology
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 48 Grammar: The ing– and ed–forms (usage) Word List:
- •Energy Saving Technologies in Hospitals
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 49 Grammar: The Noun as an Attribute. The Participle Word List:
- •Design of Containment for the Long-Term Isolation of Irradiated Fuel During Underground Disposal
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 50 Grammar: The Infinitive. The Subjective Infinitive Construction. The Participle as an Attribute Word List:
- •Exergy Analysis on Power Plants Using Cold Energy of lng
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 51 Grammar: The Participle. The Gerund Word List:
- •New Firing Technology
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 52 Grammar: Non-finite Forms of the Verb. The Infinitive Constructions Word List:
- •Mobile phones: a health risk?
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 53 Grammar: Non-finite Forms of the Verb. The Infinitive constructions Word List:
- •Mobile Telephony Biological Impacts Part I
- •Part II
- •Focused Practice
- •Measuring technique and equipment
- •Unit 54
- •Grammar: The Participle. The Attribute
- •Word List:
- •Signal and Network Analyzers Span the Spectrum from Audio to Light
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 55 Grammar: The Passive Voice.The Gerund Word List:
- •Confocal Microscopes
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 56 Grammar: The Perfect Tenses. The Subjunctive Mood Word List:
- •A Historical Review of Atomic Frequency Standards Used in Space Systems
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 57 Grammar: The Adjective. Degrees of Comparison. The Infinitive Word List:
- •A Display System for Phased Array Radars
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 58 Grammar: The Participle. The Gerund Word List:
- •Special Issue on Wireless Communications
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 59 Grammar: The Participle. The Attribute Word List:
- •Bluetooth in Wireless Communication
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 60 Grammar: The Adjectives (Degrees of Comparison) Word List:
- •Wrap – Speed Wireless
- •Focused Practice
- •Special technical decisions in tv, telephony, encrypton, nanotechnology
- •Unit 61
- •Grammar: The Participle. The Complex Sentence
- •Word List:
- •Dynamics of an Adaptive Hybrid
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 62 Grammar: The Future Simple Tense Word List:
- •Multilevel Converters as a Utility Interface for Renewable Energy Systems
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 63 Grammar: The Passive Voice Word List:
- •Bandwidth Considerations for Multilevel Converters
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 64 Grammar: The Functions of the Infinitive and Gerund Word List:
- •A Model of Visual Adaptation for Realistic Image Synthesis
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 65 Grammar: The Infinitive. Modal Verbs Word List:
- •A Better Way to Compress Images
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 66 Grammar: The Past Simple Tense Word List:
- •The Advanced Encryption Standard
- •Focused Practice
- •Unit 67 Grammar: Word Combination; that, this, the...The Construction Word List:
- •Focused Practice
- •Contents
Focused Practice
I. Answer the following questions:
1. What opportunity did western countries see?
2. What did Siemens do?
3. Who is the ultimate customer for the combined cycle power plant?
4. Where is the combined cycle plant built?
5. What is the main fuel for power generation in Russia today?
6. What will the combined cycles improve?
II. Analyse the grammar structures underlined in the above text.
III. Speak on:
1. The Combined Cycle Plant.
2. The ways of international cooperation in power engineering.
Unit 41 Grammar: The Infinitive, the Gerund, the Participle Word List:
1. enriched uranium |
обогащенный уран |
2. pellet |
топливная таблетка (ядерного реактора), гранула |
3. dime |
американская монета в десять фунтов |
4. rod control rod |
стержень управляющий стержень |
5. bundle |
узел, связка, пучок |
6. to submerge |
погружать в воду |
7. supercritical |
сверхкритический |
8. core reactor core |
ядро активная зона ядерного реактора |
9. to shut down |
остановить, выключить |
10. to spin |
вращать, закручивать |
11. loop |
контур |
12. pressure vessel |
корпус ядерного реактора |
13. concrete |
бетон |
14. liner |
оболочка, облицовка |
15. radiation shield |
радиационная защита ядерного реактора |
16. steel containment vessel |
оболочка (саркофаг) из стали |
17. to refuel |
перезагружать топливом |
18. coolant fluid |
охлаждающая жидкость |
19. leakage |
утечка |
How Nuclear Power Works
To build a nuclear reactor, what you need is some mildly enriched uranium. Typically, the uranium is formed into pellets with approximately the same diameter as a dime and a length of an inch or so. The pellets are arranged into long rods, and the rods are collected together into bundles. The bundles are then typically submerged in water inside a pressure vessel. The water acts as a coolant. In order for the reactor to work, the bundle, submerged in water, must be slightly supercritical. That means that, left to its own devices, the uranium would eventually overheat and melt.
To prevent this, control rods made of a material that absorbs neutrons are inserted into the bundle using a mechanism that can raise or lower the control rods. Raising and lowering the control rods allow operators to control the rate of the nuclear reaction. When an operator wants the uranium core to produce more heat, the rods are raised out of the uranium bundle. To create less heat, the rods are lowered into the uranium bundle. The rods can also be lowered completely into the uranium bundle to shut the reactor down in the case of an accident or to change the fuel.
The uranium bundle acts as an extremely high-energy source of heat. It heats the water and turns it to steam. The steam drives a steam turbine, which spins a generator to produce power. In some reactors, the steam from the reactor goes through a secondary, intermediate heat exchanger to convert another loop of water to steam, which drives the turbine. The advantage to this design is that the radioactive water/steam never contacts the turbine. Also, in some reactors, the coolant fluid in contact with the reactor core is gas or liquid metal; these types of reactors allow the core to be operated at higher temperatures. Once you get past the reactor itself, there is very little difference between a nuclear power plant and a coal-fired or oil-fired power plant except for the source of the heat used to create steam.
The reactor’s pressure vessel is typically housed inside a concrete liner that acts as a radiation shield. That liner is housed within a much larger steel containment vessel. This vessel contains the reactor core as well the hardware (cranes, etc.) that allows workers at the plant to refuel and maintain the reactor. The steel containment vessel is intended to prevent leakage of any radioactive gases or fluids from the plant.
Finally, the containment vessel is protected by an outer concrete building that is strong enough to survive such things as crashing jet airliners. These secondary containment structures are necessary to prevent the escape of radiation/radioactive steam in the event of an accident like the one at Three Mile Island. The absence of secondary containment structures in Russian nuclear power plants allowed radioactive material to escape in an accident at Chernobyl.