SCRAM
Alternative letter-case form of scram.
Noun
- Alternative letter-case form of scram.
- She watched as the Marine technical team leader pressed the red SCRAM buttons for each reactor, setting off a chorus of alarms. - 1993, Tom Clancy, Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit, New York, N.Y.:...
- Although fission stops almost immediately with a SCRAM, fission products in the fuel continue to release decay heat, initially about 6.5% of full reactor power. [...] Corresponding with the SCRAM, emergency generators...
Origin
See scram; the use of uppercase letters may be because the word is thought to be an acronym of phrases like “safety control rod actuator mechanism”, “safety control rod axe man”, and “safety control rods activation mechanism”, but these are most likely backronyms.
Forms
Verb
- Alternative letter-case form of scram.
- Raising group eight rods and brining a nuclear reactor fully to life for the first time in nearly ten years—everyone was so ready they were all ready to pee in their pants. Andrews did not know he could do it without...
- Immediately after the earthquake, following government regulations, the remaining reactors, 1–3, automatically SCRAMed; control rods shut down sustained fission reactions. - 2016, Nabil Abu el Ata, Rudolf Schmandt,...