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fuel rod

noun

Meaning

  1. A long zirconium tube, filled with pellets of uranium oxide, stacked in bundles inside a nuclear reactor as fuel.

Related words

tuballoy(English)ferrouranium(English)radiozirconium(English)oralloy(English)mixed oxide(English)uranium-233(English)plutonium dioxide(English)phurnacite(English)

Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data