water-cooled reactor

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   nuclear reactor using water as a coolant

   Broadernuclear reactor

   Narrowerboiling water reactorpressurized water reactor

Questions about water-cooled reactor

What does water-cooled reactor mean?

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

Is water-cooled reactor a common word?

water-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.