How to Use reactor in a Sentence

reactor

noun
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  • 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
  • The Idaho Falls reactors’ chances of survival began to look slimmer.
    — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Amazon plans to co-locate a data center campus with a separate large, existing reactor.
    — Ben Geman, Axios, 15 Oct. 2024

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