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fuel rod

A protective metal tube containing pellets of fuel for a nuclear reactor.

fuel rod

(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

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