scrams
Gets outta there
Scrams is the third-person singular present tense of scram, meaning to leave quickly or get out.
The word is often used as a command telling someone to go away: He told the kids to scram before they got in trouble.
In nuclear engineering, scram refers to an emergency shutdown of a reactor, and scrams denotes multiple such incidents: The plant reported three scrams last year.
Departs to escape danger
skedaddles · splits · takes off · gets lost · beats it · hightails · evacuates · retreats
Controlled fission apparatus
- shutdownCessation of operations
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- control rodsNeutron-absorbing reactor components
- fissionNuclear breakup releasing energy
coolant · safety · chain reaction · criticality · meltdown · core · uranium · plutonium
flees
Departs to escape danger
vamooses · skedaddles · splits · takes off · gets lost · beats it · hightails · evacuates · retreats · dashes
reactor
Controlled fission apparatus
- shutdownCessation of operations
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- control rodsNeutron-absorbing reactor components
fission · coolant · safety · chain reaction · criticality · meltdown · core · uranium · plutonium · neutron
- word scramblePuzzle with shuffled letters
- tofu scrambleSeasoned crumbled bean curd
- mad scramble
- Scramble for AfricaRapid European colonization period
- rock scramblingUnroped climbing over rough terrain
- rock scrambleSteep terrain requiring hands
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