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noun
- the emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor.
- originally, performing the emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor by insertion of one or more safety control rods, such as by cutting a rope (acronym: "Safety Control Rod Axe Man")
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noun
- A rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor
- (alternative spelling of, SCRAM)
verb (scramm, ed)
- get out of here; go away (frequently imperative)
- If you don't , I'll leave instead!
- (rfquote-sense, also reactor scram) To shut down a nuclear reactor quickly in the event of an emergency
- 2000, Ralph R. Fullwood, Probabilistic Safety Assessment in the Chemical and Nuclear Industries, Elsevier, page 218
- :Both active and manual methods by tripping power to a dedicated pump that unbalances the flows to the passively the reactor.
Translations: Etymology: Attested since 1928<ref name="EOD-etym">"http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=scram scram" in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Â November 2001 Douglas Harper</ref>, originally as U.S. slang<ref name="EOD-etym"/>; either:- formed by abbreviation of (term, scramble, lang=en) by aphíresis;<ref name="EOD-etym"/> or
- from (term, schramm, lang=de), imperative singular form of (term, schrammen, , depart, lang=de).<ref name="EOD-etym"/>
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