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nuclear reactor

Any of several devices that maintain and control a sustained nuclear fission chain reaction for the production of energy heat or artificial elements or for research purposes The main fuel sustaining the reaction and consumed by the process is typically uranium or plutonium...

nuclear fission

A nuclear reaction in which a heavy atomic nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy...

Meroblastic

Consisting only in part of germinal matter characterized by partial segmentation only as meroblastic ova in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission meroblastic segmentation opposed to holoblastic...

Nuclear device

an explosive device whether used as a weapon or for other purposes which depends for most of its explosive power on the release of energy from within atomic nuclei A fission device or a fusion device...