organic-cooled reactor

organic-cooled reactor

[ȯr′gan·ik ¦küld rē′ak·tər]

(nucleonics)

A reactor that uses organic chemicals, such as mixtures of polyphenyls (diphenyls and terphenyls), as coolant.

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