nuplexn.
/ˈnjuːplɛks/, U.S. /ˈn(j)uˌplɛks/ Now rare (probably disused).
A proposed type of combined agricultural and industrial complex, built around a nuclear reactor which would generate all necessary power.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > other farms
home farm1749
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county farm1785
factory farm1824
bird farm1842
provision farm1846
spade-farm1848
bush-farm1851
poor farm1852
sewage farm1870
cacao farm1871
mixed farm1872
vertical farm1897
prison farm1961
nuplex1968
society > occupation and work > workplace > factory > [noun] > industrial or agricultural complex
nuplex1968
1968 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 27 Aug. 4/1 Mr. Seaborg [sc. 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.
1972 Science 24 Nov. 849/2 Heat energy from nuclear reactors will be utilized in large nuclear/industrial complexes, or nuplexes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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