Scram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"A scram or SCRAM is an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor…The term is usually cited as being an acronym for safety control rod axe man, which was coined by Enrico Fermi when the world's first nuclear reactor was built under the bleachers at the University of Chicago's Stagg Field."
Cool! I ran across this definition the other day while reading The Girls of Atomic City, a book soon to appear on our list. Wikipedia (and other sources) confirm.
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