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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
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Noun

(plural control rods)

  1. Any of a number of steel tubes, containing boron or other neutron absorber, that is inserted into the core of a nuclear reactor in order to control its rate of reaction
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