control rod
短语[化] 控制棒
词形变化
control rods
复数
control rods
释义与例句
n.
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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
A faulty control rod design was a key factor in causing the 1986 steam explosion of a reactor at Chernobyl.