spent fuel

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spent fuel [′spent ′fyül]

(nucleonics)

Nuclear reactor fuel that has been irradiated to the extent that it can no longer effectively sustain a chain reaction because its fissionable isotopes have been partially consumed and fission-product poisons have accumulated in it.

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