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fuel rods

fuel rods is the plural of fuel rod.

Meaning of fuel rod

Noun

fuel rod (plural fuel rods)

  1. A long zirconium tube, filled with pellets of uranium oxide, stacked in bundles inside a nuclear reactor as fuel.
    • Since it began operating in 1950, Sellafield has had different duties. First it manufactured plutonium for nuclear weapons. Then it generated electricity for the National Grid, until 2003. It also carried out years of fuel reprocessing: extracting uranium and plutonium from nuclear fuel rods after...December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian

Questions about fuel rods

What is fuel rods the plural of?
Fuel rods is the plural of fuel rod.

Words near fuel rods in the dictionary

  1. fuel provider
  2. fuel providers
  3. fuel pump
  4. fuel pumps
  5. fuel rod
  6. fuel rods
  7. fuel station
  8. fuel stations
  9. fuel supplier
  10. fuel suppliers
  11. fuel tank

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