How to Use reactor in a Sentence

reactor

noun
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  • The reactor would be built on Earth and then sent to the moon.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Even the other reactor at the same plant in Texas was fine.
    — Michael Shellenberger, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • But at the moment, there is nowhere to dispose of the used reactors.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2023
  • As do those who had to leave the Chernobyl plant for good when the last reactor shut down in 2000.
    — Amy Kellogg, Fox News, 27 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Shares in Rolls-Royce, which has been in the reactor business for over half a century, rose more than 6% on the news.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Since then, new water has been pumped in to cool fuel debris in the reactors.
    — Jake Kwon, CNN, 9 July 2023
  • For the same reason the reactor should be as far aft as possible.
    — Thomas E. Stimson, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2021
  • 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
  • It was set to host the breeder reactor on its Clinch River, Tenn. site – a national project in the 1970s.
    — Llewellyn King, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • The reactors can still be as big as an office building.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • And they could be designed for stronger protection against the risk of a reactor meltdown.
    — Jeremy Hsu, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2021
  • But the closure of the plant's last reactor on April 30 will likely lead to a short-term increase in fossil fuel use.
    — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • According to the university, reactor manufacturers had been struggling to find sites to build clusters of the small-scale fission facilities.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Meanwhile, in France, 56 reactors provide 72% of that nation’s electricity.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2025

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