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scram an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor scram [skram] (nucleonics) A sudden shutting down of a nuclear reactor, usually by dropping safety rods, when a predetermined neutron flux or other dangerous condition occurs. To close down a reactor by bringing about a scram. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| It's Saturday morning and the rest of Los Angeles has already piled into their SUVs and scrammed. Buddy Faro (Dennis Farina), the private investigator who wrote the book on the business, scrammed to Mexico 20 years ago to escape from a mad mobster. |
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