Definition: | property of a system, equipment or assembly, such that a specific malfunction causes a reaction that improves the safety of the system, equipment or assembly
Note 1 to entry: Example of intrinsic safety: By engineering design of a nuclear reactor, following an electrical failure nuclear reactor control rods fall by gravity into the core, shutting down nuclear reactivity. Note 2 to entry: This entry was numbered 393-18-43 in IEC 60050-393:2003.
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