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Nuclear Reactors(Topical Term)
Used for/see from:
- n: Nuclear Reactor
- n: Reactor, Nuclear
- n: Reactors, Nuclear
See also:
RADIONUCLIDE GENERATORS and NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS are also available
Devices containing fissionable material in sufficient quantity and so arranged as to be capable of maintaining a controlled, self-sustaining NUCLEAR FISSION chain reaction. They are also known as atomic piles, atomic reactors, fission reactors, and nuclear piles, although such names are deprecated. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)
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