How to Use nuclear power in a Sentence

nuclear power

noun

• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Vietnamese refugees were initially drawn to Palacios by the promise of jobs at a nearby nuclear power plant and a crab processing factory.
  — Amy Qin Callaghan O’Hare, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• In Ukraine, for example, the war has meant remote monitoring of the country’s nuclear power plants has been near to impossible.
  — Andrew Kersley, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
• Already home to more nuclear power plants than any state in the nation, Illinois is on the verge of lifting a nearly four-decade-old ban on building reactors as the state transitions from coal and natural gas.
  — Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
• However, a new energy challenge looms over the months and perhaps years ahead: Keeping Ukraine’s nuclear power plants running.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Mar. 2023
• Myers explained that there is three times as much tritium in a hallway exit sign than in the water under the Xcel Energy nuclear power plant, the outlet reported.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
• Europe’s largest nuclear power plant lies on the front line amid a Ukrainian counteroffensive whose full firepower remains to be unleashed.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 July 2023
• For weeks, Ukraine has been accusing Russia of planning to create a false flag incident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which has been under Russian control since the early days of the war.
  — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 5 July 2023
• Artist rendition of the NuScale Power nuclear power plant.
  — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024