fuel rod

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Noun

fuel rod (plural fuel rods)

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

Related terms

• nuclear fuel

Translations

• German: Brennstab

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