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RBMK

RBMK noun: a kind of graphite-moderated nuclear reactor, designed so that, instead of a large steel pressure vessel surrounding the entire core, the core is surrounded by a cylindrical annular steel tank inside a concrete vault and each fuel assembly is enclosed in an individual pipe or channel that also contains the coolant.

Noun

RBMK (plural RBMKs)

  1. A kind of graphite-moderated nuclear reactor, designed so that, instead of a large steel pressure vessel surrounding the entire core, the core is surrounded by a cylindrical annular steel tank inside a concrete vault and each fuel assembly is enclosed in an individual pipe or channel that also contains the coolant.

Forms of RBMK

pluralRBMKs

Origin of RBMK

Initialism from the Russian name: "реа́ктор большо́й мо́щности кана́льный" (reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalnyy), meaning "high-power channel-type reactor".

Questions about RBMK

What does RBMK mean?
RBMK means a kind of graphite-moderated nuclear reactor, designed so that, instead of a large steel pressure vessel surrounding the entire core, the core is surrounded by a cylindrical annular steel tank inside a concrete vault and each fuel assembly is enclosed in an individual pipe or channel that also contains the coolant.
What part of speech is RBMK?
RBMK is a noun.
What is the plural of RBMK?
The plural of RBMK is RBMKs.

Words near RBMK in the dictionary

  1. RBI
  2. RBIs
  3. RBLF
  4. RBM
  5. RBMG
  6. RBMK
  7. RBMKs
  8. RBMs
  9. RBN
  10. RBO
  11. RBOC

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