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Emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor
A scram or SCRAM is an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor effected by terminating the fission reaction. It is also the name that is given to the manually operated kill switch that initiates the shutdown. In commercial reactor operations, this type of shutdown is often referred to as a "scram" at boiling water reactors and a "reactor trip" at pressurized water reactors. In many cases, a scram is part of the routine shutdown procedure which serves to test the emergency shutdown system. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ScramA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Sarima-Based Cyber-Risk Assessment and Mitigation Model for A Smart City’s Traffic Management Systems (Scram)Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Lost in the groovesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Numerical investigation on the ram–scram transition mechanism in a strut-based dual-mode scramjet combustorCited 204 times
- Go sideways: Neutron poisonA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Shutdown (nuclear reactor)A closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
Verb To leave in a hurry; to go away.
Noun A gun, firearm.
Verb To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.
Verb Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Numerical investigation on the ram–scram transition mechanism in a strut-based dual-mode scramjet combustor
Ram-Scram Transition and Flame/Shock-Train Interactions in a Model Scramjet Experiment
New Method for Computing Performance of Choked Reacting Flows and Ram-to-Scram Transition
Numerical Study of Scram Accelerator Starting Characteristics
Effect of twice quenching and tempering on the mechanical properties and microstructures of SCRAM steel for fusion application
Dual/scram-mode combustion limits of ethylene and surrogate endothermically-cracked hydrocarbon fuels at Mach 8 equivalent high-enthalpy conditions
Reactivity-Initiated-Accident Analysis without Scram of a Molten Salt Reactor
Loss-of-primary-flow-without-scram tests: Pretest predictions and preliminary results
🆕 Influential since 2022
Sarima-Based Cyber-Risk Assessment and Mitigation Model for A Smart City’s Traffic Management Systems (Scram)
Ram to scram mode transition in a simulated flight acceleration
Prediction of Automatic Scram during Abnormal Conditions of Nuclear Power Plants Based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Dropout
Numerical Simulation of Scram-Mode Operation of an Axisymmetric Combustor in an Arc Tunnel
Validation of the fast reactor plant dynamics analysis code Super-COPD using FFTF loss of flow without scram test #13
đź“š Books worth reading
Lost in the groovesKim Cooper, David Smay · 2004
ScramJames S. Martin · 1993- 📕Assessment of RELAP5/MOD3.2.2 gamma with the LOFT L9-3 experiment simulating an anticipated transient without scramJ. K. Suh · 2001
Scram!Harry Benson · 2012- 📕Scram!Lauren Child · 2022
- 📕Tony ScramPhil Rossi · 2012
ScramRory Lucey · 2024
Splashdown in Cerulean City (Pokemon Chapter Books #7)Tracey West · 2000
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