In order to control the nuclear chain reaction, the reactor operators use control rods.

为了控制原子能的连锁反应，反应器的操作人员用到了控制棒。

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That programme was about “weaponisation”: the fiddly business of making a device that can set off a chain reaction in nuclear fuel.

该计划致力于武器化：虽然制造在核原料中引发链式反应的设备是一件高精细度的工作。

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During a nuclear fission chain reaction, the tubes heat up to extremely high temperatures, and the way to keep them safe turns out to also be the way to extract useful energy from them.

核裂变连锁反应发生时，导管被加热到极其高的温度，将热量安全导出则意味着可以提取裂变产生的可利用能量。

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Even if a nuclear explosion took place and everything on earth got atomized and destroyed, through some bizzare science fiction chain reaction. They always do in the movies.

即使发生核爆炸,像某些离奇科幻小说里描述的，的连锁反应那样，一切都毁灭了,电影里经常可以看到的场面。

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