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converter reactor definition

converter reactor

a nuclear reactor that produces less fissionable material than it consumes, or one that produces a different fissionable material than it consumes

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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