How to Use reactor in a Sentence

reactor

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  • But at the moment, there is nowhere to dispose of the used reactors.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The six-reactor plant, the largest in Europe, has been occupied by Russia since March 4.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The twin-reactor Diablo Canyon plant is scheduled to shut down by 2025.
    — Michael R. Blood, ajc, 2 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Five states have reversed decades-old bans on building reactors.
    — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The Idaho Falls reactors’ chances of survival began to look slimmer.
    — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The market had languished for a decade after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan prompted the closure of dozens of reactors.
    — WSJ, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The reactor could not be restarted without NRC approval.
    — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The words are chiseled in his psyche, fuel rods in a nuclear reactor.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Lockheed Martin said that for safety reasons, the reactor would not be turned on until the spacecraft has reached a safe orbit.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • Virginia is among at least eight states pursuing a small reactor.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant: The destruction of the dam endangered the main source of water used to cool the site’s reactors.
    — Natalia Yermak, New York Times, 17 June 2023
  • NuScale hopes its smaller reactors can avoid that fate.
    — WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The photos showed no visible changes to the roofs of the six concrete containment domes covering the reactors at the plant, or nearby buildings.
    — Samya Kullab, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • Their modular reactor is built to hook up to building HVAC systems.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
  • NuScale had begun preparing the site and crafting the reactors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Nov. 2023
  • No large reactors are planned, and the last few projects of that sort were either canceled or ran horrifically over budget.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Ukraine has said the attack could also threaten the nuclear plant, which depends on the reservoir for cooling its reactors.
    — Marc Champion, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2023

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