"control rod" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: control rods [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} control rod (plural control rods)
  1. Any of a number of steel tubes, containing boron or other neutron absorber, that are inserted into the core of a nuclear reactor in order to control its rate of reaction Translations (Translations): säätösauva (Finnish), barre de commande [feminine] (French), Steuerstab [masculine] (German), Kontrollstab [masculine] (German), Regelstab [masculine] (German), 制御棒 (seigyo bō) (Japanese), tandos-panupil (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-control_rod-en-noun-SI69lN83 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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