Aftercooling
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Aftercooling
1. The cooling of a gas after compression.
2. The necessary cooling of a
reactor core after its
shutdown by pumping a liquid or gas through it to carry off the excess
heat generated by continuing radioactive decay of fission products
within the core.
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