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Cross-tie lines

English translation: Interconnecting power lines

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English term or phrase:Cross-tie lines
Selected answer:Interconnecting power lines
Entered by: Masoud Kakouli Varnousfaderani

05:48 Jun 3, 2016
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Nuclear Eng/Sci
English term or phrase: Cross-tie lines
Cross-tie lines had been installed at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP nearly a decade earlier as a design enhancement for accident management. Sharing the functioning emergency power of Unit 6 was only possible for Unit 5, since these interconnections had been installed only between pairs of units, i.e. Units 1 and 2, Units 3 and 4, and Units 5 and 6.
Masoud Kakouli Varnousfaderani
Türkiye
Local time: 04:43
Interconnecting power lines
Explanation:
The emergency power systems of units 5 & 6 (and 1+2 and 3+4) were connected together so that one emergency generator could provide power to two units. This would be used when one of the emergency generators was unavailable for any reason. The power lines between each pair (plus their associated switching) are the cross-tie lines.
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Terry Richards
France
Local time: 03:43
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cross-tie lines
Interconnecting power lines


Explanation:
The emergency power systems of units 5 & 6 (and 1+2 and 3+4) were connected together so that one emergency generator could provide power to two units. This would be used when one of the emergency generators was unavailable for any reason. The power lines between each pair (plus their associated switching) are the cross-tie lines.

Terry Richards
France
Local time: 03:43
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Didier Fourcot: Confirmed by "these interconnections" in ST
44 mins
agree  Yasutomo Kanazawa
1 hr
agree  Lingua 5B
4 hrs
agree  acetran
10 hrs
agree  Jörgen Slet
1 day 55 mins
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