Meaning & use
Calandria
Last updated
A cylindrical vessel containing an array of tubes through which fuel channels or coolant pass, used in certain nuclear reactors and industrial evaporators.
See it in a sentence
The CANDU reactor's calandria houses hundreds of horizontal fuel channels cooled by heavy water.
Engineers inspected the calandria for signs of tube corrosion during the scheduled shutdown.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from Spanish/Italian for a type of cooking pot, the term was adopted by nuclear engineers for the tube-and-shell vessel at the heart of pressurized heavy-water reactors.
Words with a similar meaning
tube bundlereactor vessel
Choose a synonym to suit the sentence. Meanings can overlap without being identical.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “Calandria”, then compare your use with the examples above.
Your draft stays on this page and is not sent anywhere.