gas-cooled reactor

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   a nuclear reactor using gas as a coolant

   Broadernuclear reactor

Questions about gas-cooled reactor

What does gas-cooled reactor mean?

gas-cooled reactor means "a nuclear reactor using gas as a coolant".

Is gas-cooled reactor a common word?

gas-cooled reactor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.