WordNet
n. a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy [syn: atomic pile, pile, chain reactor]
Usage examples of "atomic reactor".
Only a hundred yards separated him from the atomic reactor complex.
Son of a formerly well-known scientist who had been caught in the radiation of an atomic reactor gone wild, the father's genetic constitution had been altered so that when Clifford was born he was not as other children.
At the same time, Tom switched on the atomic reactor and shot steam to the turbine, using the panel of remote controls.
Suffice it to say, then, that it was a continuously active atomic reactor, with an effective surface temperature of approximately twenty five thousand degrees Kelvin, and let it go at that.
Many forms of bacteria not only thrive within boiling water, they flourish also in the high-radiation environment of an atomic reactor.
They found parts of the atomic reactor coils in the machine shop and the remains of a meal in the small galley.
There's another group at the atomic reactor on Yakima Ridge in Washington.
With a flick of his hand, he cut in more power from the atomic reactor.
At one time this pile had been the largest commercial atomic reactor in existence, and it still ranked high.