corium
Noun

corium (plural coriums)

  1. (anatomy) The inner layer of skin, the dermis.
  2. (anatomy) The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.
  3. (historical) Armour made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans.
Noun

corium (uncountable)

  1. (nuclear physics) A lavalike mixture of fissile material created in a nuclear reactor's core during a nuclear meltdown.
    • Franklin Chung and L.E. Hochreiter (1991) Numerical modelling of basic heat transfer phenomena in nuclear systems, page 32: “Previous studies of the thermal behavior of corium in a degraded nuclear reactor have focussed primarily on the process of heat transfer within the corium.”
    • 2009, Wei Wei and Xin-rong Cao, "The Simulation of Corium Dispersion in Direct Containment Heating Accidents", Zero Carbon Energy Kyoto 2009.
    • 2011, C. Journeau and M. Ficsher, Nuclear Safety in Light Water Reactors: Severe Accident Phenomenology, page 569:
      As a result, dedicated core catchers have been designed that can gather the corium and cool it safely.



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