Word: scram
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secondary loop and sent pressure inside the reactor soaring. This pressure rise, in turn, caused a relief valve to pop open. It stuck. Pressure then dropped so rapidly that the emergency core cooling system, designed to keep the core from overheating, was automatically activated. That started a reactor "scram" or shutdown. Tons of water flowed into the reactor and out through the open relief valve. At the same time, malfunctioning instruments gave reactor operators misleading readings of reactor pressure, which made them believe that the core of enriched uranium was covered with coolant when it was not. The operators switched...
...carrying tape recorders and cameras turned up at her Manhattan apartment building, asking tenants about her habits and the layout of her apartment. Since then, she has been shadowed by two men with shaved heads who told her they were from the Synanon Committee for Responsible American Media (SCRAM). She quotes one of them as saying: "The goal of SCRAM is to get your life...
...when he left after the two-ton bartender told him to scram, she lit up a cigaette and talked furiously about professionalism...
...crafty old gentleman's desire to leave his fortune in good hands. Nick was all ready to be the old gentleman's guide on a return to Greece, the fatherland, until Nick's father, seeing a threat to the line of succession, told the boy to scram back to Daytona...