nuclear fuel
English
Noun
nuclear fuel (plural nuclear fuels)
- A radioactive material, such as uranium, used to power a nuclear reactor.
- 2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 20:
- For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the processing of lower grades of radioactive waste for off-site storage.
Related terms
Translations
radioactive fuel
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References
- “nuclear fuel”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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