During his tour, Wright explained in detail how to install evacuated solar water heating tubes and how best to insulate period sash window frames without diminishing their appearance.
The water leak occurred in thousands of tubes that carry heated water from the reactor core through the plant's steam generators.
To get around this, researchers piped water through sealed tubes just 50 microns (millionths of a metre) in diameter, between individual layers.
Such terms gloss over the fact that, just like the pipes that carry water, the tubes that carry bits are reliant on old-fashioned, low-tech spadework, human contact and the geographical reality in which all that exists.
This uses a motorized pump to push water through long black plastic tubes that are laid out in rows along the base of the plants.
But modern drip irrigation uses underground computerized probes and long plastic tubes to slowly release water over long distances.
The twin-domed plant between San Diego and Los Angeles has not produced electricity since January 2012, when a tiny radiation leak led to the discovery of unusual damage to hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water.
The seaside plant between Los Angeles and San Diego has been shut down since January 2012, after a small radiation leak led to the discovery of unusual damage to hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water.
Shut-down reactors include two at the beleaguered San Onofre nuclear power plant in southern California, which hasn't produced electricity since January 2012, when a tiny radiation leak led to the discovery of damage to hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water.
An MTA spokesman said late Monday night that water had reached into all five subway tubes that stretch under the East River between Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn and the Steinway tube between Midtown and Queens.
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Each of the 65-foot-tall, 640-ton generators -- built by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries -- are packed with thousands of narrow tubes that carry hot, pressurized water from the reactors.
When I was in college, I worked in the cafeteria and one of my jobs was exchanging and maintaining the syrup canisters and making sure that they were properly connected to the tubes which mixed them with carbonated water.
Instead of flooding the field, just the required amount of water "drips" slowly through intermittent holes in the tubes directly onto the plant's roots.
He has proposed deploying a million plastic tubes, each about a hundred metres long, to roil the water, which would help it trap more CO2.
With hydroforming, steel tubes are clamped into a mold and ballooned into the desired shape by 15 seconds of water under high pressure.
The heavy water is held in an acrylic sphere, and is surrounded by a network of nearly 10, 000 photomultiplier tubes.
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