Wiktionary
n. Any of a bundle of long zirconium tubes, filled with pellets of uranium oxide, that are stacked inside a nuclear reactor
Usage examples of "fuel rod".
Shafter was going around pushing a fuel rod in the ground and tapping it.
If you want to find metal under the ground, I can take a spare fuel rod and push it into the dirt and tap it and if there's any metal around, it will polarize the current and one of these analyzers will spot it.
It's not like our fuel rod stocks are really low, in spite of the rate you've been using them up for that ‘.
It's not like our fuel rod stocks are really low, in spite of the rate you've been using them up for that 'special project' you're so hushy-hush about.
Megalobe's AutoFuel Division is marketing the latest development in solid hydrocarbon fuel rod cells.
Constructed entirely of self-consuming polyacetylene-oxygen electrodes, they are extremely efficient in ratio of energy to weight, because the fuel rod itself is an electrical conductor that is entirely consumed as it reacts with oxygen from the atmosphere.
The fuel rod had been a trick thought up years ago, the idea being to have smuggler craft carry it into the frontier region and sell them off, with the hope that the rods would eventually wind up on Confederation ships.
Rebus dug the fuel rod out of his own pocket, the tiny canister still warm.
Kawahara grew up in Fission City, dealing anti-radiation drugs to the families of fuel rod workers.
The sub can cruise for two more years without nuclear fuel rod replacement, but provi.
Boyle pushed the fuel rod down to the limits of the outward bound trip.