How to Use nuclear reactor in a Sentence

nuclear reactor

noun

• This need is where the idea of a small nuclear reactor comes into play.
  — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2023
• The Pilgrim nuclear reactor rises in the distance at the end of a secured service road.
  — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
• The words are chiseled in his psyche, fuel rods in a nuclear reactor.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2022
• Prior to this year, only one new nuclear reactor come had online since 1996.
  — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• 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
• The camp was one of the first facilities to be powered by a portable nuclear reactor, known as the PM-2A, which supplied electricity and heat.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
• How -- how should people understand what is happening now with the nuclear reactor in Ukraine?
  — CBS News, 11 Sep. 2022
• So, can a nuclear reactor be turned into a nuclear weapon?
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 13 June 2023
• How should people understand what is happening now with the nuclear reactor in Ukraine? AMB.
  — CBS News, 11 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Instead of causing the gas to heat and expand by burning it in a combustion chamber, the gas was heated by coming into contact with a nuclear reactor.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 22 July 2024
• There’s no way to explain it other than the Purdue Boilermakers melting down like a flawed nuclear reactor.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 18 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Three Mile Island, of course, is where a nuclear reactor experienced a partial meltdown in 1979.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Last month, Google announced a deal to purchase nuclear energy from a fleet of small modular reactors, a new type of nuclear reactor, set to be built by Kairos Power.
  — Julia Shapero, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• To do this the party wants to double onshore wind production, triple solar power, quadruple offshore wind, and get Hinkley Point C, a new nuclear reactor besieged by delays, over the finish line.
  — Byholly Else, science.org, 14 June 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Set in an alternate history based on the real-life 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown, unexplainable anomalies in the Zone caused by the disaster warp the laws of physics and make life within it harsh and violent.
  — Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Meta needs the incredible power of a nuclear reactor to energize its AI data centers.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025