Scram vs. Scran — What's the Difference?

A scram or SCRAM, is an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor effected by immediately terminating the fission reaction. It is also the name that is given to the manually operated kill switch that initiates the shutdown.

Scran is a Scottish online resource for educational use by the public, schools, further education and higher education. It presents nearly 490,000 (still and moving) images and sounds contributed by museums, galleries, archives and the media.

To leave a scene at once; go abruptly.

Food, especially that of an inferior quality; grub.

To shut down automatically. Used of a nuclear reactor.

Refuse; rubbish.

A rapid shutting down of a nuclear reactor, especially in an emergency.

To eat

To leave in a hurry; to go away.

(transitive) To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency. Category:en:Radioactivity

(intransitive) Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.

To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.

To mine for ore on a small scale, especially from mines previously been worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed.

Of one's body or limbs: to become numb or stiff due to cold, lack of movement, etc.

To be weakened by an accident, a disease, starvation, etc.

A shutdown of a nuclear reactor (or, by extension, some other thing), often done rapidly due to an emergency.

The device used to shut down a nuclear reactor; also, the button or switch used to initiate a shutdown.

A scratch, especially caused by claws or fingernails.

A mine previously worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed, but which is still being mined on a small scale.

To leave; to go away; used mostly as an impolite command to a person to go away from a specific location.

To shut down (a nuclear reactor) quickly, as in an emergency.

The rapid shut down of a nuclear reactor, as in an emergency.

Leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form;