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What is a reactor?

What is a reactor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person who responds to a suggestion, stimulation or other influence.
  2. (industrial) A structure used to contain chemical or other reactions.
  3. (nuclear physics) A device which uses atomic energy to produce heat.
  4. (chemistry) A chemical substance which responds to the presence or contact with another substance.
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This energy trapped in the reactor is used as a heat source to drive a steam turbine and create electricity.
The cargo lander would include an aerobrake heat shield and a nuclear reactor on a robot truck.
A gout of white heat erupted from the star in the centre of the reactor, fusing metal and spewing out into space.
Depleted uranium is a by-product of the process in which uranium is enriched to become reactor fuel or weapons-grade material.
All I can say is that it is a good job that I am not in charge of a nuclear reactor.
When a fuel rod is spent and removed from the reactor, it is hot and highly radioactive.

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