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afterheat
/ ˈɑːڳəˌː /
noun
the heat generated in a nuclear reactor after it has been shut down, produced by residual radioactivity in the fuel elements
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of afterheat1
Example Sentences
Chernobyl offers many lessons about what Princeton University engineering professor Robert Socolow calls the "afterheat" of a nuclear disaster, but it's the generational lesson that's most important.
Chernobyl offers many lessons about what Princeton University physics professor Robert Socolow calls the "afterheat" of a nuclear disaster — but it's the generational lesson that's the most important one.
“Afterheat,” Robert Socolow, a Princeton University professor, called it in an essay for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, “the fire that you can’t put out.”
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