The Control rod reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Jul-2004
(provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Control rod

Helping orphans the way you would do it
A control rod is a rod made of a chemical element capable of absorbing many neutrons without decaying themselves. They are used in nuclear reactors to control the rate of decay of uranium.

This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.