calandria

/ kəˈlændrɪə /

noun

1. a cylindrical vessel through which vertical tubes pass, esp one forming part of an evaporator, heat exchanger, or nuclear reactor

Word History and Origins

Origin of calandria¹

C20: arbitrarily named, from Spanish, literally: lark

Example Sentences

The album’s final track is a cover of a Puerto Rican jíbaro classic, “La Mujer Sin Corazón,” by La Calandria, a.k.a.

From New York Times

As a first step, in January 2016, workers removed the IR-40’s calandria—the vessel holding the reactor core—and filled it with concrete.

From Science Magazine

The nuclear deal required Iran to redesign the plant and pour concrete into the pipes of the reactor’s calandria, or core.

From Washington Post

“Just yesterday, the foreign minister reported to me that the calandria of the plutonium nuclear reactor is now out and in the next hours it will be filled with concrete and destroyed.”

From The Guardian

Iran has said it will downsize the calandria—the vessel in which a core resides—making it harder to later reconfigure the reactor to switch back to natural uranium fuel and produce more plutonium.

From Science Magazine