WordNet
thermonuclear reactor
n. a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fusion to generate energy [syn: fusion reactor]
Usage examples of "thermonuclear reactor".
Continental Electronics was building the lasers for the world's first commercial CTR - Controlled Thermonuclear Reactor.
However, they do fit a thermonuclear reactor more or less like ours.
Likewise, the thermonuclear reactor and associated machines were introduced, and spread widely, while mysticism out of Asia was denying, in millions of minds, that science could answer the questions that mattered.
The minor star that humans call the Sun is a seething, restless million-kilometer-wide thermonuclear reactor.