How to Use reactor in a Sentence

reactor

noun

• 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
• Since then, new water has been pumped in to cool fuel debris in the reactors.
  — Jake Kwon, CNN, 9 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• One theory is that the fusion reactor within him was produced by the traumas of his youth.
  — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2022
• But first that reactor, the Voygr model designed by a startup called NuScale, had to be built.
  — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
• The idea of building new reactors was less popular, with 45% in favor and 46% opposed.
  — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Finland is starting a new reactor and Japan appears to be on the verge of restarting some shuttered nuclear plants for the first time in over a decade.
  — Roger Conrad, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• Carol handed me a piece of slag—black, glassy rock—that had come from one of the reactors after the extraction of key elements.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024
• Five states have reversed decades-old bans on building reactors.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• Three Mile Island was shut down in 1979 after a partial meltdown in one of its reactors that remains the most significant nuclear accident in U.S. history.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
• Small modular reactors promise to reduce capital costs and speed the deployment of nuclear plants.
  — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024