Usage of "chain reactor"

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A nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy.

Sinònims

Examples for "pile"

Britain currently pays about £40bn a year to finance its debt pile. 
 The Guardian 

There'll be a pile of paper on my desk that needs attention. 
 On the Beach 

The questions pile on top of one another: Do you believe him? 
 Reuters 

Now the pile of paper was not just burning; it was blazing. 
 Misery 

One way is to have market participants pile on to the trend. 
 Reuters 

For instance: we're still using ion-rockets, driven by an atomic pile. 
 Cities in Flight 

This ship is powered by a nuclear reactor-inother words, an atomic pile. 
 Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet 

Neither of these extremes is wanted in an atomic pile. 
 The K-Factor 

Then try to go along with the analogy that a human society is like an atomic pile. 
 The K-Factor 

This is the cooled down atomic pile. 
 The K-Factor 

There's another group at the atomic reactor on Yakima Ridge in Washington. 
 The stand 

But that wouldn't cause an atomic reactor to blow. 
 The Bramble Bush 

Perhaps their atomic reactor exploded-if this is possible. 
 Level 7 

Try thinking of soil somewhat like the moderators in an atomic reactor, controlling the reaction by trapping neutrons. 
 Organic Gardener's Composting 

And the funny part about it is that it is the reactor- our own atomic reactor-which is killing us. 
 Level 7 

Translations for chain reactor

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reactor atòmic

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Significats de chain reactor en anglès