advanced gas-cooled reactor
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advanced gas-cooled reactor
[əd′vanst ′gas ¦küld rē′ak·tər] (nucleonics)
A power-generating nuclear reactor which has steel-clad uranium dioxide fuel elements and is cooled by carbon dioxide gas.
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