nuplex
(ˈnjuːplɛks)
[f. nuclear a. + complex n.]
A combined agricultural and industrial complex built around a nuclear reactor as the source of all power and providing employment for a large number of people.
| 1968 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 27 Aug. 4/1 Mr. Seaborg [Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission] defined the ‘nuplex’ as ‘a giant agro-industrial complex built around nuclear reactors’. 1970 New Scientist 8 Oct. 89/3 One such investigation is into nuclear farms for the Middle East: half-million-acre ‘nuplexes’ with a reactor desalinating seawater for irrigation..and manufacturing fertilizer on the spot. |