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nuclear reactor (plural nuclear reactors)

1. (physics) Any device in which a controlled chain reaction is maintained for the purpose of creating heat (for power generation) or for creating neutrons and other fission products for experimental, medical or other purposes.

   Hypernyms: reactor (elliptically synonymous) < device, apparatus

   Meronym: control rod

   Near-synonym: atomic pile (dated)

   • 1993 August 9 [1993 April 8], Zhongqing Tian, “Change in Overall Situation on the Korean Peninsula”, in JPRS Report China‎^[1], number 93-057, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:

     Some newspapers in the United States, in Japan, and in South Korea printed photographs of North Korean nuclear reactors and nuclear plants, photos that were said to have been taken by U.S. military satellites. Most of the exposures were from a nuclear research establishment at Ninghian Chun in Pingan Beidao, only 80 km from Pyongyang.

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