Tag: fail safe

Are You Really “Fail Safe”?

It’s 3:00 am, and you are fast asleep when you get an alert that the power is out at your plant due to a severe storm.

Actuator supports nuclear plant cool down

Enertech, a business unit of Curtiss Wright flow control, has developed an extended mission gas spring actuator model to support nuclear plant cool down during station black conditions. Conventional electro-hydraulic, gas spring actuators are limited to one direction; fail safe positioning of isolation valves.