corium
Noun
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Noun
corium (plural coriums)
- (anatomy) The inner layer of skin, the dermis.
- (anatomy) The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.
- (historical) Armour made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans.
corium (uncountable)
- (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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