How to Use light water in a Sentence

light water

noun

• The fitted hood won’t impair vision, and a light water-repellent coating will keep you dry(ish) in a pinch.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 19 May 2020
• The world’s existing fleet of light water reactors (LWRs) use fuel enriched to about 5% U-235.
  — James Conca, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• The Strider shorts are made of ultra-light water-repelling material, designed to make the shorts dry rapidly.
  — Thomas Hindle, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2023
• When moisture is added to dry air, the lighter water molecules displace heavier nitrogen and oxygen molecules and the air becomes less dense.
  — Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• Apartments on the building’s third floor suffered substantial smoke and water damage while units below sustained light water damage, Kelley said.
  — Charlie McKenna, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2022
• So the type of accident that occurred at Chernobyl, which is essentially a power excursion, is very unlikely in a light water reactor.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2022
• The design calls for a light water reactor—essentially the same atom-splitting engineering found within the majority of big nuclear power plants around the world.
  — WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
• NuScale uses a light water reactor—by far the most common type of reactor in commercial nuclear power plants—but that’s about where the similarities end.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 13 Dec. 2019
• A couple of additional modular light water reactors are about to start the certification process.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 1 Sep. 2020
• Notably, Poland’s focus is on building traditional large light water nuclear projects that the U.S. has struggled to build domestically in recent decades, not the smaller reactors that are seen as the (potentially cheaper) future of the industry.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 19 Oct. 2020
• Garrish also touted success in promoting exports of traditional large light water nuclear projects that the U.S. has struggled to build domestically in recent decades.
  — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 29 Nov. 2020
• The Energy Department recently awarded the first $160 million for a first-of-its-kind advanced reactor demonstration program that aims for companies to build two non-light water reactors that can be operational within seven years.
  — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 19 Nov. 2020
• There were indications at Yongbyon of continued development of a light water reactor and the construction and renovation of buildings at the site’s nuclear fuel-rod fabrication plant, the report said.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
• Today, almost all working nuclear power plants use light water reactors, meaning a central nuclear fuel reaction cooled by regular, flowing water.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2021
• Oklo’s proposal represents the nation’s first application for a non-light water reactor to the Nuclear Energy Regulatory Commission.
  — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024