Emergency core cooling system

ReactorSystem used to initiate, maintain and control a fission chai... cooling system for safe removal of residual heatHeat generated by the decay of radioactive fission products ... in the case of an interruption of the heat transfer between reactorSystem used to initiate, maintain and control a fission chai... and heat sink. The emergency cooling systems are designed so that even in the case of reactor coolantCoolant used to remove heat from the reactor core. (See seco... loss – e.g. when both ends of a live-steam pipe are broken – the reactorSystem used to initiate, maintain and control a fission chai... is cooled and the decayThe spontaneous conversion of a nuclide into another nuclide... heat can be removed over weeks. By means of redundant design a very high degree of functional safety is achieved. Thus, emergency cooling is guaranteed even if a subsystem fails.