an adjustable rod or bar containing a neutron-absorbing material or, in a fast reactor, fuel used to regulate the fission chain reaction inside a nuclear reactor core
control rod
control rodWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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