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fuel rod n (Engineering / General Engineering) a long tube, often made of a zirconium alloy and containing uranium-oxide pellets, that is stacked in bundles of about 200 to provide the fuel in certain types of nuclear reactor How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Should these fuel rods somehow become ignited, the resulting fire would spew radioactivity into the environment equaling three or four times that from the Chernobyl incident. Common sense dictated that--whatever it did about the centrifuges--the Bush administration should do everything possible to keep the fuel rods locked up. A spent uranium fuel rod miniature of the Washington Monument, by crank yanker Rumsfeld. |
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