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nuclear fuels

nuclear fuels is the plural of nuclear fuel.

Meaning of nuclear fuel

Noun

nuclear fuel (plural nuclear fuels)

  1. A radioactive material, such as uranium, used to power a nuclear reactor.
    • For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the...2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 20

Questions about nuclear fuels

What is nuclear fuels the plural of?
Nuclear fuels is the plural of nuclear fuel.

Words near nuclear fuels in the dictionary

  1. nuclear force
  2. nuclear forces
  3. nuclear forensics
  4. nuclear fratricide
  5. nuclear fuel
  6. nuclear fuels
  7. nuclear fusion
  8. nuclear fusions
  9. nuclear gamma resonance fluorescence
  10. nuclear halo
  11. nuclear haloes

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