A nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy.
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Examples for "pile "
Examples for "pile "
1 Britain currently pays about £40bn a year to finance its debt pile .
2 There'll be a pile of paper on my desk that needs attention.
3 The questions pile on top of one another: Do you believe him?
4 Now the pile of paper was not just burning; it was blazing.
5 One way is to have market participants pile on to the trend.
1 For instance: we're still using ion-rockets, driven by an atomic pile .
2 This ship is powered by a nuclear reactor-inother words, an atomic pile .
3 Neither of these extremes is wanted in an atomic pile .
4 Then try to go along with the analogy that a human society is like an atomic pile .
5 This is the cooled down atomic pile .
1 There's another group at the atomic reactor on Yakima Ridge in Washington.
2 But that wouldn't cause an atomic reactor to blow.
3 Perhaps their atomic reactor exploded-if this is possible.
4 Try thinking of soil somewhat like the moderators in an atomic reactor , controlling the reaction by trapping neutrons.
5 And the funny part about it is that it is the reactor- our own atomic reactor - which is killing us.
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Translations for chain reactor