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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.
- Holonym: nuclear reactor
- A faulty control rod design was a key factor in causing the 1986 steam explosion of a reactor at Chernobyl.
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