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The engineers survived “core dumps” and rainstorms to nail capsule reentry times.

If necessary, they would cut the cables, and gravity would expeditiously return the control rods to the reactor, thereby averting yet another kind of core dump.

Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit.

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The process of grovelling through a core dump or hex image in an attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down.