Pile
Reactor
Reactor noun - (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements.
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- Across the Pond, the United Kingdom built the Graphite Low Energy Experimental Pile, a long-lived research reactor and the first purpose-built nuclear reactor in Western Europe.
Source: Fun With Acronyms / Real Life - How about the hidden reactor in the junk pile in part 3?
Source: Guide Dang It / Adventure - Since reactors currently in use are designed with safe failure modes in mind (including the famous manually triggered SCRAM), the worst you really get from a land-based reactor meltdown is that the reactor pile becomes a pile of reactor.
Source: Going Critical
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