How to Use nuclear power in a Sentence

nuclear power

noun
  • 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
  • That's adding pressure to the decades-long effort to find a place to store the radioactive waste U.S. nuclear power plants produce.
    — Scott Franz, NPR, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The region is home to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, which Russian forces seized in 2022 in the early days of the full-scale invasion.
    — Cassandra Vinograd, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The sun produces them through fusion; so do nuclear power plants.
    — Eric Baculinao, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
  • France is the only nuclear power in the European Union.
    — Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Natural gas turbines are in short supply, and there are long lead times to build nuclear power plants.
    — Daniel Cohan, The Conversation, 9 July 2025
  • 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
  • There are also no nuclear power plants in Hawaii or Alaska.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The creators referenced the video game his show is based on, as well as real-world places that saw mass destruction, like the area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
    — Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
  • 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
  • Back in the thirties, people thought nuclear power was going to revolutionize the world in a good way.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 27 June 2025
  • Six drones were shot down near the Kursk nuclear power plant, the ministry said, close to fierce fighting as Moscow's forces seek to eject Ukrainian troops from the western Russian region.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • New nuclear power plants are being planned across the continent.
    — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Besides being efficient, nuclear power plants take up a whole lot less space than wind and solar farms.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 12 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Meta signed a deal earlier this month to purchase power from an Illinois nuclear power plant.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 26 June 2025
  • 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
  • New York just did what Illinois lawmakers have failed to do for nearly four decades: commit to building a real nuclear power plant.
    — Micky Horstman, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2025

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