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1. Term used to describe the least desirable fruit on the grocer's shelf (bruised, nicked, flavorless, and limp)
2. British slang for male "old maids" (blokes that never found love)
3. British Nuclear Fuels, Plc., a British government-owned company in the nuclear business, including reprocessing British and foreign spent fuel

1. A smaller than average atom
2. Colloquialism for "Miner Tom," a cartoon character used in government efforts to promote safety in uranium mines
3. The Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy (comparable in the United States to the Department of Energy)

1. French for "love of plutonium"
2. Slang for a female assembly line worker, originating from the subject of the famous folk song, "Cog in the wheels of progress" Emma
3. Compagnie Générale des Matières Nucléaires, a state-owned company in France that operates uranium mines, uranium enrichment facilities, reprocessing plants, and fuel fabrication facilities for French and foreign clients

1. Superman's evil twin
2. The metropolitan area around the capital of the state of Arizona
3. A 2900 megawatt-thermal sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, now closed, located at Creys-Malville in the Lyon area in France. Superphénix, the largest breeder reactor in the world, was shutdown permanently in 1998.

1. What Russians say after someone sneezes
2. The Great Spirit Electricity (literally translated from the Old Russian: "Ghost that resides in high tension power lines")
3. Established in 1992, Russia's nuclear regulatory agency (counterpart of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

1. Mixed Oxide fuel, a mixture of plutonium dioxide and uranium dioxide
2. Mine Oxygen, a special type of oxygen tank used by people who mine uranium
3. Missle Oxide, the common name for a certain type of rocket fuel.

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