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Fuel-coolant Interaction

Explosion created from a violent boiling of water Littoral explosion at Waikupanaha ocean entry at the big island of Hawaii was caused by the lava entering the ocean A steam explosion is an explosion caused by violent boiling or flashing of water or ice into steam, it occurs when water or ice is either superheated, rapidly heated by fine hot debris produced within it, or heated by the interaction of molten metals (as in a fuel–coolant interaction, or FCI, of molten nuclear-reactor fuel rods with water in a nuclear reactor core following a core-meltdown).

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