How to Use nuclear power in a Sentence

nuclear power

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  • This is extremely important because the major cost of nuclear power isn't the reactor but the civil engineering needed to house and service it.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 31 July 2024
  • But Scotland still has to have a nuclear power plant for when there’s no wind.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • During the 1960s, nuclear power plants were built across the country.
    — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The loss of the dam also threatens the water available to cool the reactors of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
    — Jennifer R. Littlejohn, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The strikes cut power in some areas, and knocked a nuclear power plant off the electricity grid.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Something big has happened in the realm of nuclear power, strengthening the case for the energy source.
    — Andrew Follett, National Review, 9 Apr. 2023
  • One spent some time in the fallout zone around the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl following the plant’s deadly 1986 meltdown.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Since a loss of propulsion could mean getting stuck under the ice, keeping the sub’s small nuclear power plant in top form becomes a matter of life or death.
    — Kenny Holston, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
  • The researchers found that without nuclear power, the Lone Star State will struggle to meet the demand during normal summer heat.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Of course, nuclear power has always been the flip side of that other use of nuclear reactions: weapons.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Promoting a false peace Due to the devastation of the atomic bombs, there was widespread fear about nuclear power.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Given 30 years to build this quantity of nuclear power plants, the average rate of construction would be about 3 plants per day.
    — David Fork, IEEE Spectrum, 28 June 2021
  • After retiring its last nuclear power plants, Germany has had to burn more coal.
    — Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Douglas and Fonda starred in the 1979 thriller The China Syndrome, about a fictional accident at a nuclear power plant.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2024
  • At peak times, Italy is importing as much as 3.5 gigawatts of electricity from France, the equivalent to the output of one nuclear power plant.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 23 July 2024
  • At the time of the 2011 earthquake, Konno was working as an engineer at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in the prefecture to the north of the Daiichi facility.
    — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The darkest hours came in November, after a Russian missile barrage knocked all the country’s nuclear power plants offline at the same time.
    — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • It was formed in the 1970s as a reservoir to facilitate cooling at an adjacent nuclear power plant.
    — CBS News, 13 June 2024
  • France depends on Niger’s uranium mines for about 15 percent of the resources needed to fuel its nuclear power plants.
    — Elian Peltier, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
  • Israel’s friends worldwide, and anyone interested in the stability of a nuclear power, would be wise to take note and speak up.
    — Dan Perry, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Particularly concerning to him are plans for a mega data center on the site of the state’s only nuclear power plant.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
  • Efforts to keep the nuclear power plant open come as California battles extreme heat, wildfires, and other events that have strained the state’s electric grid.
    — Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The California Public Utilities Commission will soon vote on whether to keep the last remaining nuclear power plant in the state open for at least six more years.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Australian sailors will increasingly embed with U.S. and British forces and at nuclear power schools.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
  • That will be important as more of the U.S. grid relies on less-polluting energy sources like solar, wind and nuclear power.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Indeed, some countries have flip-flopped on their commitments to nuclear power.
    — Kristen Walker, National Review, 5 Feb. 2024
  • France also has long been a leader in clean energy derived from nuclear power.
    — Drew Goins, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • Gates has invested $1 billion into a nuclear power plant that broke ground in Kemmerer, Wyo., this week.
    — Steve Inskeep, NPR, 14 June 2024
  • The deal comes amid a flurry of developments at the nuclear power plant in Waynesboro, 30 miles southeast of Augusta.
    — Drew Kann, ajc, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Half of America’s carbon-free energy is produced by nuclear power, the law states.
    — David Pace, Idaho Statesman, 14 July 2024

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