Faded Giant
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Faded Giant (plural Faded Giants)
- (US, euphemistic, military) A reporting term to identify an event involving a nuclear reactor or radiological accident.[1][2]
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- ^ Wayback Machine Archived link - About.com: US Government info. Retrieved March 14, 2012
- ^ US Department of Defense Directive 5230.16