English Explanatory Dictionary

control rod

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a number of steel tubes, containing boron or other neutron absorber, that are inserted into the core of a nuclear reactor in order to control its rate of reaction.

Word forms

control rod control rods
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