How to Use nuclear power in a Sentence

nuclear power

noun
  • The use of nuclear power in space has been mixed.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Polling shows people would rather live near a nuclear power plant.
    — David Wade, CBS News, 18 June 2026
  • The nuclear power plant a few miles up the road, which has sat lifeless for over a decade.
    — Miranda Dunlap, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • To do that, nuclear power is the sole option.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 19 May 2026
  • The concept of nuclear power in space isn’t new.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 19 May 2026
  • 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
  • The sun produces them through fusion; so do nuclear power plants.
    — Eric Baculinao, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Built in five years The plan to build the world’s largest nuclear power base has been in the works for well over a decade.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Britain has been a nuclear power since the 1950s.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2026
  • This is key, as the region remains wary of nuclear power’s safety record.
    — Julius Cesar Trajano, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The first state to ever restart a nuclear power plant at Palisades.
    — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Heavy water is used in nuclear power plants as well as for weapons-grade plutonium.
    — Patrick Sykes, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Container ships drift through a nuclear power plant.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart in the dead of night.
    — ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Colorado has a new law declaring nuclear power a source of clean energy.
    — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
  • New nuclear power plants are being planned across the continent.
    — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2025
  • That law also lifts Illinois’ nearly four-decade ban on new base-load nuclear power plants.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
  • After decades in the doldrums, nuclear power is making a comeback of sorts.
    — Big Think, 14 Aug. 2025
  • There’s this preoccupation with deaths from nuclear power, but what’s rarely talked about are all the lives that have been saved.
    — Big Think, 14 Aug. 2025
  • But the real breakthrough lies in where nuclear power can be delivered.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Cameco has gained more than 50% this year as demand for nuclear power grows worldwide.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 9 Sep. 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
  • The strikes cut power in some areas, and knocked a nuclear power plant off the electricity grid.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Just in the past two days, the spicy, junky stuff has come in a bit ( quantum , drones , upstart nuclear power ), helpfully.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The Barakah nuclear power plant in Abu Dhabi's western desert.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 18 May 2026
  • Two other Wisconsin nuclear power plants have since been shut down.
    — Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Experts questioned both the timing and the scale of the nuclear power plant Duffy is proposing.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 19 May 2026
  • Uranium is a key fuel for nuclear power plants that can be used to create a bomb if enriched to high levels.
    — Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2026

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