Emergency Core Cooling System

Emergency Core Cooling System
(ECCS)
  Equipment designed to cool the core of a nuclear reactor in the event of a complete loss of the coolant.
  California Energy Comission. Dictionary of Energy Terms

Energy terms . 2014.

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