nuclear power

noun

physics
: energy that is created by splitting apart the nuclei of atoms

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The broadcaster also reported that authorities were assessing nuclear power plants. Christopher Cann, USA Today, 8 Dec. 2025 That quake and tsunami left more than 22,000 people dead or missing and caused reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to melt down, releasing radioactive contamination into the surrounding area. Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025 The strategy rightly establishes freedom of navigation and regional stability as priorities in the Indo-Pacific, positioning China as a competitor while underscoring the importance of avoiding direct conflict with a nuclear power that is a military behemoth. Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2025 An explosion in Reactor 4 at the nuclear power plant in the then-Soviet Union in April 1986 triggered what is widely considered the world's worst nuclear disaster in history. Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nuclear power

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