How to Use light water in a Sentence

light water

noun
  • Pack a light water bottle that can fit in your coat or a small backpack.
    — Ryan Deto, Axios, 23 Jan. 2025
  • These new reactor designs appear on a relative basis to be quite a bit safer than the current mix of light water reactors.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The Strider shorts are made of ultra-light water-repelling material, designed to make the shorts dry rapidly.
    — Thomas Hindle, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2023
  • When hand watering individual baskets, use a weak, light water stream from a hose nozzle or watering can.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 19 May 2026
  • When moisture is added to dry air, the lighter water molecules displace heavier nitrogen and oxygen molecules and the air becomes less dense.
    — Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Upon his return, many of his belongings were destroyed, however, the book only sustained light water damage.
    — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Its reactor design uses liquid salt as the coolant rather than light water, which allows the plant to operate at near atmospheric pressure.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Apartments on the building’s third floor suffered substantial smoke and water damage while units below sustained light water damage, Kelley said.
    — Charlie McKenna, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Lee points out how North Korea agreed in 1994 to freeze its nuclear program in exchange for heavy oil and light water reactors.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
  • A couple of additional modular light water reactors are about to start the certification process.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 1 Sep. 2020
  • In Keaton Beach, a small coastal community, light water stains and dirt about a foot or so off the ground marked some homes by late Wednesday, showing where floodwaters had reached.
    — WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
  • So the type of accident that occurred at Chernobyl, which is essentially a power excursion, is very unlikely in a light water reactor.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2022
  • In 1995, Russia agreed to supply the light water reactor for Iran’s nuclear power plant in Bushehr.
    — Dina Esfandiary, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The design calls for a light water reactor—essentially the same atom-splitting engineering found within the majority of big nuclear power plants around the world.
    — WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
  • NuScale uses a light water reactor—by far the most common type of reactor in commercial nuclear power plants—but that’s about where the similarities end.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The majority of these nuclear power reactors in operation are light water reactors.
    — Dan Kotlyar, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The world’s existing fleet of light water reactors (LWRs) use fuel enriched to about 5% U-235.
    — James Conca, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Today, almost all working nuclear power plants use light water reactors, meaning a central nuclear fuel reaction cooled by regular, flowing water.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2021
  • It is powered by a novel 83-megawatt (MW) compact light water reactor, CLWR-B1.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Today, every American nuclear plant uses light water reactors, in which water is pumped into a reactor core and heated by atomic fission, producing steam to create electricity.
    — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • On March 4, the NRC crowed proudly about issuing the first commercial reactor construction permit in a decade — and the first approval for a non-light water reactor in more than 40 years.
    — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The Energy Department recently awarded the first $160 million for a first-of-its-kind advanced reactor demonstration program that aims for companies to build two non-light water reactors that can be operational within seven years.
    — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Government support has aided the development of a number of energy technologies, including gas turbines and light water reactors, while failing in other instances, from the compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) to the fast breeder reactor.
    — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Oklo’s proposal represents the nation’s first application for a non-light water reactor to the Nuclear Energy Regulatory Commission.
    — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2020

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