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Despite calls from progressives to invest in renewable energy sources like solar and wind power, the bill aims to boost the struggling nuclear power industry through a four-year, $6 billion program to keep nuclear reactors in operation.

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The US military’s first attempts at land-based portable nuclear reactors didn’t work out well in terms of environmental contamination, cost, human health, and international relations.

Researchers at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the National Academy of Sciences have previously questioned the risks of nuclear reactors being attacked by terrorists.

With physicist Eugene Wigner, Wilkins began laying the theoretical physics groundwork for nuclear reactors.

In a nuclear reactor, energy is released when uranium atoms fission, or split, after being hit by a neutron.

When Israel did not admit in the '60's to establishing a nuclear reactor in Dimona, it claimed it was a 'textile factory.'

This is not the story of a future Israeli strike against Iran; this is Israel's attack on a Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007.

In 2007, the Bush administration had the location of a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria.

From nuclear-reactor makers to dictators, see who else BM has worked for.

In 2007, it signed an agreement with Russia for the construction of a small nuclear reactor on Burmese soil.

Another kind, which can be made in a nuclear reactor, is called tritium.

This ship is powered by a nuclear reactor—in other words, an atomic pile.

"Even without a nuclear reactor or any potential atom bombs," Rick added.

He would report that country Y had a secret atomic pile—nuclear reactor, that is—in the mountains of West China.

Nevertheless, a nuclear reactor is well beyond such experiences.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nuclear reactor, such as: reactor, atomic furnace, atomic pile, atomic power plant, atomic reactor, and breeder reactor.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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