How to Use nuclear in a Sentence
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So the wind farm will equal about 1/3 of the nuclear plant’s output.
— Diana Furchtgott-Roth, National Review, 13 Nov. 2023 -
The Corps has been cleaning up nuclear waste from the creek for years.
— Adriana Diaz, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2022 -
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 -
It’s best known as the home of the nation’s former nuclear weapons test site.
— Gabe Stern, ajc, 27 Oct. 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 -
Shoigu's claim sparked fears that Russia might be laying the groundwork to use a nuclear weapon and blame Ukraine for it.
— Ian Pannell, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2022 -
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 -
Some of the country’s largest nuclear waste sites sit outside of urban centers.
— Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 17 Oct. 2022 -
And Max Rockatansky is a twist on Shane with a dab of nuclear radiation mixed in.
— and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 June 2024 -
No country has achieved this without a lot of nuclear, hydro, natural gas, or coal.
— Mark Le Dain, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024 -
Trump has a golden opportunity to make a much bigger deal with Iran that would return real curbs on the nuclear program in exchange for economic incentives.
— Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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