control rod

English

Noun

control rod (plural control rods)

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

Translations

Translations

German: Steuerstab m

Tagalog: tandos-panupil

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