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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A protective metal tube containing pellets of fuel for a nuclear reactor.
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- noun Any of a bundle of long
zirconium tubes , filled with pellets of uranium oxide, that are stacked inside anuclear reactor
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