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  • abbreviation loss-of-coolant accident

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  • Earlier assumptions were that this would be likely in the event of a major loss of cooling accident (LOCA) that resulted in a core melt.

    Safety of nuclear power reactors 2009

  • Small-break LOCA [and pressure leak], total loss of feedwater (heat exchange) for 8 minutes (steam generators boiled dry at 2 minutes), scram failure at core central, hot leg's off the scale.

    The Memory Hole 2005

  • "Before the spent fuel pool ignited, I could put my thumbs under my suspenders and say, 'yeah that's a small-break LOCA,'" Morse said, using the industry jargon for "loss of cooling accidents" similar to what occurred at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, in 1979.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Loss of Coolant Accident (LOCA) - A RELAP5 / MOD3. 2 large LOCA model of 4-loop Westinghouse plant was developed to handle both the different geometry and the higher power components.

    Next Big Future 2008

  • - LOCA analyses performed for 100\% and 150\% power.

    Next Big Future 2008

  • CHRISTINA AGUILERA CANTA DANÇA E TEM NOTA 100 LADY GAGA PORRA LOCA NAO CANTA NAO DANÇA SO SABE USAR ROUPAS RIDICULAS nota 0

    Christina Aguilera “Not Myself Tonight” Song Debuts Next Week 2010

  • YO SOY COMPLETEMENTE LOCA obviously I was hallucinating yesterday

    Dear Anjali Melissa Glenn Haber 2010

  • YO SOY COMPLETEMENTE LOCA obviously I was hallucinating yesterday

    Dear Anjali Melissa Glenn Haber 2010

  • Chap. 59 Resolve providing for a study by a special unpaid COMMISSION RELATIVE TO THE PROPER PLANNING, LOCA -

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • CONSTRUCT AN UNDERPASS THROUGH THE EXISTING LOCA -

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

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