control rod

English

Noun

control rod (plural control rods)

1. Any of a number of steel tubes, containing boron or other neutron absorber, that are inserted into the core of a nuclear reactor in order to control its rate of reaction

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: säätösauva (fi)
• French: barre de commande (fr) f
• German: Steuerstab m, Kontrollstab m, Regelstab m
• Japanese: 制御棒 (ja) (seigyo bō)
• Tagalog: tandos-panupil