How to Use nuclear power in a Sentence

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• Maybe even just sit with friends and enjoy a cup of coffee in the warm glow of nuclear power?
  — New Atlas, 26 Oct. 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 sun produces them through fusion; so do nuclear power plants.
  — Eric Baculinao, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Here’s to the week ahead, and don’t hesitate to reach out with comments, questions, feedback, joy, or plans for your own nuclear power plant.
  — Peter Green, Quartz, 20 Oct. 2024
• 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 premise of the book asks the question: What would happen if a commercial airliner crashed into a nuclear power plant?
  — T.j. Newman, Deadline, 15 Aug. 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
• Generally, SMRs are about 300 megawatts or less — about one-third the size of a conventional nuclear power plant.
  — Rob Nikolewski, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024