emergency core coolant

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• Emergency Core Cooling System — An Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS) is a component in nuclear power plants designed to deal with a loss of coolant accident (LOCA) by providing massive backup sources of coolant.An ECCS also may be used after a partial (incomplete) SCRAM to… …   Wikipedia

• Emergency Core Cooling System — (ECCS)   Equipment designed to cool the core of a nuclear reactor in the event of a complete loss of the coolant.   California Energy Comission. Dictionary of Energy Terms …   Energy terms

• Loss of coolant accident — A loss of coolant accident (LOCA) is a mode of failure for a nuclear reactor; if not managed effectively, the results of a LOCA could result in reactor core damage. Each nuclear plant s Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS) exists specifically to… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear meltdown — Three of the reactors at Fukushima I overheated, causing core meltdowns. This was compounded by hydrogen gas explosions and the venting of contaminated steam which released large amounts of radioactive material into the air.[1] …   Wikipedia

• Advanced Heavy Water Reactor — The Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR) is the latest Indian design for a next generation nuclear reactor that will burn Thorium in its fuel core. It is slated to form the third stage in India s 3 stage fuel cycle plan.… …   Wikipedia

• ECC — abbr. comp. Error Checking and Correcting Memory comp. Error Checking and Correction comp. Error Checking and Control comp. Error Checking Capability comp. Error Correction Code comp. Embedded Control Channel crypt. Elliptic Curves Cryptography… …   Dictionary of English abbreviation

• теплоноситель системы аварийного охлаждения активной зоны — (ядерного реактора) [А.С.Гольдберг. Англо русский энергетический словарь. 2006 г.] Тематики энергетика в целом EN emergency core coolantECC …   Справочник технического переводчика

• Nuclear reactor — Core of CROCUS, a small nuclear reactor used for research at the EPFL in Switzerland This article is a subarticle of Nuclear power. A nuclear reactor is a device to initiate and control a sustained nuclear chain reaction. Most commonly they are… …   Wikipedia

• Chernobyl disaster — This article is about the 1986 nuclear plant accident in Ukraine. For other uses, see Chernobyl (disambiguation). Chernobyl disaster …   Wikipedia

• nuclear reactor — Physics. reactor (def. 4). Also called nuclear pile. [1940 45] * * * Device that can initiate and control a self sustaining series of nuclear fission reactions. Neutrons released in one fission reaction may strike other heavy nuclei, causing them …   Universalium

• Three Mile Island accident — The Three Mile Island accident of 1979 was the most significant accident in the history of the American commercial nuclear power generating industry. It resulted in the release of a significant amount of radioactivity, an estimated 43,000 curies… …   Wikipedia