How to Use nuclear reactor in a Sentence
nuclear reactor
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This need is where the idea of a small nuclear reactor comes into play.
—Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2023
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The Pilgrim nuclear reactor rises in the distance at the end of a secured service road.
—Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
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The words are chiseled in his psyche, fuel rods in a nuclear reactor.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2022
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Prior to this year, only one new nuclear reactor come had online since 1996.
—Robert Rapier, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
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Hickman was preparing for his plant to expand into a new product line: Holtec’s very own brand of nuclear reactor.
—Molly Taft, The New Republic, 14 July 2023
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How -- how should people understand what is happening now with the nuclear reactor in Ukraine?
—CBS News, 11 Sep. 2022
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So, can a nuclear reactor be turned into a nuclear weapon?
—Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 13 June 2023
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How should people understand what is happening now with the nuclear reactor in Ukraine? AMB.
—CBS News, 11 Sep. 2022
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In late July, Unit 3 made history when it was placed into commercial service, becoming the first new nuclear reactor built from scratch in the U.S. in more than 30 years.
—Drew Kann, ajc, 30 Aug. 2023
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There’s no way to explain it other than the Purdue Boilermakers melting down like a flawed nuclear reactor.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 18 Mar. 2023
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That rate hike would take effect the month after the second new nuclear reactor on the site, Unit 4, begins providing electricity to Georgians.
—Drew Kann, ajc, 30 Aug. 2023
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The Navy, meanwhile, successfully continues to use nuclear reactor power plants on board some of its ships and submarines.
—Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2023
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The island’s massive ice sheet had other ideas for Camp Century, though—ice shifts and flows, making this not a particularly ideal place to stash nukes or run the nuclear reactor that powered the base.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 20 July 2023
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The milestone comes just weeks after the site’s other new reactor, Unit 3, made history when it was placed into commercial service, becoming the first new nuclear reactor built from scratch in the U.S. in more than 30 years.
—Drew Kann, ajc, 17 Aug. 2023
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Shares of NuScale Power were down about 35% Thursday after the small modular nuclear reactor company said its first project would be canceled due to surging costs.
—Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
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For comparison, the last large nuclear reactor to be built in the US finally came on line this summer roughly $17 billion over budget after seven years of delays.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 26 Sep. 2023
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The sound of a ticking clock emphasizes the balance Gibson strikes between Meir’s fierce determination to act and moments of reflection (the balcony of the title refers both to her home and to the viewing platform at the Dimona nuclear reactor).
—Terry Byrne, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
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Smith happened to be in Edmonton, Alberta, to announce a deal between the provinces to construct a small modular nuclear reactor.
—Andrew Follett, National Review, 21 Jan. 2024
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Georgia Power said Unit 3 would continue startup testing to show that its cooling system and steam supply system will work at the intense heat and pressure that a nuclear reactor creates.
—Jeff Amy, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2023
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For the first time in more than 50 years the US granted permission for a new type of nuclear reactor, a sign regulators are becoming more open to different approaches to producing power from splitting the atom.
—Will Wade, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2023
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There, digital readouts count down the minutes, T-minus style, until power begins flowing to a test unit simulating the blistering heat of a new kind of nuclear reactor.
—Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2023
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Finland canceled a troubled project with Rosatom to build a nuclear reactor and hired Westinghouse to design, license and supply a new fuel type for its plant in Loviisa after its current contracts expire.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
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The book explores the scientific, ethical, and personal quandaries faced by scientists like herself who built the world’s first nuclear reactor.
—Erica Huang, Scientific American, 20 July 2023
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The Annapolis, whose main mission is destroying enemy ships and submarines, is powered by a nuclear reactor but is armed with conventional weapons.
—Kim Tong-Hyung, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
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The University of Utah’s nuclear reactor, Hinojosa said, is secured and alarmed and police have unique protocols for managing any breach of the facility.
—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2022
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Fermi led a group that was building an experimental nuclear reactor beneath the football field at the University of Chicago.
—Monica Lopez, Scientific American, 27 July 2023
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In a nuclear reactor, that reaction is controlled, allowing a relatively constant stream of fission, Green said.
—Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 13 June 2023
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The Germans themselves had decided to direct their nuclear research efforts to a nuclear reactor, believing that a bomb would be too impractical.
—Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023
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Over a decade behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget, France’s next-generation nuclear reactor in Flamanville is finally expected to get fueled up in early 2024.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2022
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The design that was certified by federal regulators is for a 50-megawatt, advanced light-water small modular nuclear reactor.
—Jennifer McDermott, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023
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