nuclear reactor

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Noun

nuclear reactor (plural nuclear reactors)

1. (physics) Any device in which a controlled chain reaction is maintained for the purpose of creating heat (for power generation) or for creating neutrons and other fission products for experimental, medical or other purposes.
   • 1993 August 9 [1993 April 8], Zhongqing Tian, “Change in Overall Situation on the Korean Peninsula”, in JPRS Report China‎^[1], number 93-057, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:

     Some newspapers in the United States, in Japan, and in South Korea printed photographs of North Korean nuclear reactors and nuclear plants, photos that were said to have been taken by U.S. military satellites. Most of the exposures were from a nuclear research establishment at Ninghian Chun in Pingan Beidao, only 80 km from Pyongyang.

Synonyms

• atomic pile (dated)

Derived terms

• nuclear reactor core

Translations

device

• Arabic: مُفَاعِل نَوَوِيّ m (mufāʕil nawawiyy)
• Armenian: միջուկային ռեակտոր (hy) (miǰukayin ṙeaktor)
• Azerbaijani: nüvə reaktoru
• Basque: erreaktore nuklear
• Belarusian: ядзерны рэактар m (jadzjerny reaktar)
• Bulgarian: ядрен реактор m (jadren reaktor)
• Catalan: reactor nuclear m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 核反應堆 / 核反应堆 (hat⁶faan²jing³deoi¹)

  Mandarin: 核反應堆 / 核反应堆 (zh) (héfǎnyìngduī)

• Czech: jaderný reaktor m
• Danish: atomreaktor
• Dutch: kernreactor (nl) m
• Esperanto: nuklea reakciujo, nuklea reaktoro
• Estonian: tuumareaktor (et)
• Finnish: ydinreaktori (fi)
• French: réacteur nucléaire (fr) m
• Galician: reactor nuclear m
• Georgian: ბირთვული რეაქტორი (birtvuli reakṭori)
• German: Kernreaktor (de) m, Kernmeiler m, Atomreaktor (de) m, Atommeiler (de) m
• Greek: πυρηνικός αντιδραστήρας m (pyrinikós antidrastíras)
• Gujarati: અણુભઠ્ઠી (aṇubhaṭhṭhī)
• Hebrew: כור גרעיני (he) m (kur garení)
• Hindi: परमाणु भट्ठी m (parmāṇu bhaṭṭhī)
• Hungarian: atomreaktor (hu)
• Icelandic: kjarnaofn m, kjarnakljúfur (is) m
• Indonesian: reaktor nuklir
• Italian: reattore nucleare
• Japanese: 原子炉 (ja) (げんしろ, genshiro)
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 원자로(原子炉) (ko) (wonjaro)
• Latvian: kodolreaktors m
• Lithuanian: branduolinis reaktorius m
• Malay: reaktor nuklear
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: atomreaktor m, kjernereaktor m

  Nynorsk: kjernereaktor m, atomreaktor m

• Persian: رآکتور هسته‌ای (re-âktor-e haste-'i), واکنشگاه هسته‌ای (vâkonešgâh-e haste-'i)
• Polish: reaktor jądrowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: reator nuclear (pt) m
• Romanian: reactor nuclear (ro) m
• Russian: я́дерный реа́ктор (ru) m (jádernyj reáktor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нуклеарни реактор m

  Roman: nuklearni reaktor m

• Slovak: jadrový reaktor m
• Slovene: jedrski reaktor m
• Spanish: reactor nuclear m
• Swedish: kärnreaktor (sv) c
• Tagalog: tambisaan, reaktor nuklear
• Tamil: அணுக்கரு உலை (aṇukkaru ulai)
• Thai: เครื่องปฏิกรณ์นิวเคลียร์ (krêuang bpà-dtì-gon-niu-klia)
• Turkish: nükleer reaktör (tr)
• Ukrainian: я́дерний реа́ктор m (jádernyj reáktor)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: lò phản ứng hạt nhân
• Welsh: adweithydd niwclear m

Further reading

• nuclear reactor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia