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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