How to Use nuclear in a Sentence

nuclear

adjective
  • So the wind farm will equal about 1/3 of the nuclear plant’s output.
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth, National Review, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The Smart Survivalist named the Nordic country as the safest place in the event of a nuclear war.
    Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Inside the bomb pit that was used to load nuclear test shapes on to the Enola Gay.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The towns lie across the Dnieper river from the nuclear plant, which was seized by Russian forces in the early stages of the war.
    Jamey Keaten, ajc, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The towns lie across the Dnieper River from the nuclear plant, which was seized by Russian forces in the early stages of the war.
    Jamey Keaten, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Even so, Stanke wants to raise raise awareness of the merits of nuclear.
    The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
  • As part of that second phase, the West might ask Ukraine to forswear nuclear weapons.
    Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The risks of nuclear escalation were at the front of his mind.
    Simon Shuster, TIME, 13 July 2024
  • At the time, Mr. Xi made a public statement warning that nuclear weapons had no place in the war in Ukraine.
    Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 6 May 2024
  • The blinding flash, combined with the funnel cloud whirling above it, gives the impression of a nuclear blast.
    John Vaillant, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • The cognoscenti of arms control counter that such a nuclear build-up would be foolish.
    Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2024
  • But modern nuclear weapons are not the same as how the media depicted them 40 years ago; a lot has changed.
    Sarah Cottrell, Parents, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The Biden administration wants to see dozens of these small nuclear plants built in cities and towns around the country.
    wsj.com, 12 May 2023
  • Chernobyl once brought tourists to Ukraine to see the site of the worst nuclear accident in history.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Grossi is preparing a visit to the nuclear plant this week, according to the IAEA.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • All the background actors in the movie were nuclear scientists.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Huge 121-foot-tall doors, rumored to be resistant to nuclear blast, rolled on rails.
    Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 8 June 2024
  • Except one of these guys reaches millions of viewers and the other has nuclear weapons.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2024
  • There are concerns that North Korea could soon conduct its first nuclear test in five years.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2022
  • But now the power to create that frenzy—the power to communicate—has gone from the slingshot age to the nuclear age.
    CBS News, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Nor will people who want to use AI to design nuclear weapons and bioterror attacks.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 12 July 2023
  • The project is based on the story of a whistleblower who claimed Israel was building a nuclear weapons program.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, was seized by Russia’s troops in the first weeks of their 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
    Volodymyr Verbianyi, Bloomberg.com, 20 Jan. 2024
  • And Max Rockatansky is a twist on Shane with a dab of nuclear radiation mixed in.
    and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 June 2024
  • The tale of a boy and an alien robot is not only a story of friendship but a commentary on the Cold War era in which it is set and on nuclear madness as well.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible.
    Aijaz Rahi and Ashok Sharma, al, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Zoom out: Putin has long signaled his intent to lower the nuclear threshold.
    Ivana Saric, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The Russian army attacked four cities close to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant with drones and heavy artillery.
    Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2022
  • In that vein, ballistic missiles were designed to stand sentinel over a future where nuclear arms would never again be fired in anger.
    Brad Lendon, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The meltdown was largely attributed to the nuclear safety failures of the Soviet Union, which Ukraine became independent of in 1991.
    Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024

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