Pile and Reactor

Pile

Pile noun - A nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy.

Reactor and pile are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reactor" instead a noun "Pile".

Nearby Words: piled, piling

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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Pile and reactor are semantically related. You can use "Pile" instead a noun "Reactor".

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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.
  • How about the hidden reactor in the junk pile in part 3?
  • 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.
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