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Re:St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 cont... by wahern on Sunday August 16, 2026 @01:39PM (#49322011)
It's one of the more truthy backronyms. There was an actual ax man with an ax whose job was to cut a rope to let loose the control rods, and they did use the (existing, apt) word, scram, for the emergency procedure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram
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Re:St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 cont... by CoryOndrejka on Sunday August 16, 2026 @02:17PM (#49322335)
Exactly what I would have answered :)
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Re:St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 cont... by jwkpiano1 on Sunday August 16, 2026 @03:17PM (#49322798)
None of this contradicts the point I was making, which is that the OP implied that’s what the term meant, and it simply isn’t.
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Re:St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 cont... by euroderf on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:19AM (#49329685)
At the U Chicago squash court reactor there were also people with buckets of boron solution at the ready.
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