During endurance tests, memory utilization is monitored to detect potential leaks.
"It can also detect minor leaks in toilet tanks."
But apparently the instruments meant to detect such leaks both misfunctioned and were misinterpreted.
In the project's first two weeks, Echologics detected leaks totaling 358,000 gallons daily.
The company also sends out several crews at once, he said, and is experimenting with ways to detect leaks earlier.
These risks are reduced by use of methods to detect such leaks if they occur.
Over the next few years, the stations will also have to install devices to detect leaks and buy at least $1 million in liability protection.
A helium mass spectrometer is an instrument commonly used to detect and locate small leaks.
N is one of the main means used to immediately detect even small leaks from the primary coolant to the secondary steam cycle.
New safety equipment is being installed, including a surveillance system designed to detect leaks in cooling pipes.