Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

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• If you don't scram, I'll leave instead!
• The slightest problem in a reactor will cause the control rods to plunge automatically in the uranium core at hih speeds (this is called scramming the reactor) and stop the chain reaction.
• This shut off current to the control rod mechanism, and the reactor scrammed (shut off) automatically.
• Both active and manual methods scram by tripping power to a dedicated pump that unbalances the flows to the passively scram the reactor.
• The reactor was then "scramed", but the control rods did not slide back into the reactor.
• Verb. ... 2. To scratch, with claws or fingernails. E.g. "It's my own fault the cat scrammed me, I was teasing it." [South Wales use]
• Noun. ... 2. A scratch. [South Wales use]
• A woman has praised firefighters and her cat for saving her life following an alleged arson attack. Two-and-a-half-year-old tortoiseshell Taffy repeatedly bit owner Tracie Horgan-Hodgkiss on the hand until she woke up when her flat filled with acrid smoke in the early hours of this morning. ... "I’d like to say thank you very much to the firefighters for coming to rescue me. And I am sorry that Taffy scrammed one of them!"