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Control rod

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  1. 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.

    "Holonym: nuclear reactor"

  2. 2
    a steel or aluminum rod that can be moved up or down to control the rate of the nuclear reaction wordnet

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