How to Use reactor in a Sentence

reactor

noun

• The reactor would be built on Earth and then sent to the moon.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2021
• But at the moment, there is nowhere to dispose of the used reactors.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2023
• First one was back in '81, with the Osirak reactor in Iraq.
  — CBS News, 4 May 2022
• It was shelved in 1986 and its reactor was never turned on.
  — Rebecca Tan and Jhesset O. Enano, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2023
• The plant’s six reactors are shut down but still need cooling.
  — Susie Blann, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
• The first reactor is scheduled to be up and running by 2030.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
• The latest reactor to close was New York’s Indian Point 3, in the spring of last year.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
• If destroyed, that could lead to the reactor melting down.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 6 July 2023
• Water from the dam’s reservoir had been used to cool the reactors, which now could overheat and melt down if turned on.
  — Richard Engel, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Shares in Rolls-Royce, which has been in the reactor business for over half a century, rose more than 6% on the news.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2021
• Since then, new water has been pumped in to cool fuel debris in the reactors.
  — Jake Kwon, CNN, 9 July 2023
• For the same reason the reactor should be as far aft as possible.
  — Thomas E. Stimson, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2021
• The two new reactors were supposed to cost $14 billion, but the price tag ballooned to $31 billion.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 1 Aug. 2023
• The reactors can still be as big as an office building.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2024
• Vattenfall said last week that the earliest a new reactor could come online is in the first half of the 2030s.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune Europe, 19 June 2024
• The six-reactor plant, the largest in Europe, has been occupied by Russia since March 4.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
• That’s when the heat produced by the core of a reactor begins to exceed its ability to be cooled.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 25 Feb. 2022
• The key advantages are their size — about one-tenth as big as a standard reactor — the ease of construction and the price tag.
  — Menelaos Hadjicostis, ajc, 10 Sep. 2022
• The twin-reactor Diablo Canyon plant is scheduled to shut down by 2025.
  — Michael R. Blood, ajc, 2 Mar. 2023
• But there, too, costs have spiraled; the cost of the Flamanville 3 reactor, supposed to start up next year, has risen to more than $14 billion.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 4 Sep. 2022
• The reactor is outside the city limits of Glen Rose, 60 miles southwest of downtown.
  — Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2022
• This led to the overheating of three reactor cores and the melting of nuclear fuel.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023
• The first of Vogtle’s new units finished 7 years late and the second new reactor is more than 6 years behind schedule.
  — Drew Kann, ajc, 30 Aug. 2023
• For those projects, 23 reactors were built but none were ever launched into space.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 27 July 2023
• And only a third of the fuel is replaced, just those fuel elements that have been in the reactor for six years.
  — James Conca, Forbes, 22 June 2021
• So in a tokamak reactor, plasma is heated more and more until its charged ions start to merge.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Feb. 2022
• The first reactor’s safety systems worked, and the second one’s are expected to.
  — Mark Naida, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
• The explosion smashed the reactor’s steel and concrete roof and spewed tons of radioactive rubble half a mile into the air.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• Each fuel pebble will constantly shuffle through the reactor, passing through about six times.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2024
• By comparison, the average reactor in the U.S. is currently around 1,000 megawatts.
  — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025