nuclear reactor
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One possible route to an atomic bomb involved building a nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium, a radioactive element that can be used in nuclear weapons.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
That’s roughly the output of a large nuclear reactor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The companies said the supply covered by this agreement is equivalent to what would be produced by a new nuclear reactor.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
In 2008, less than a year after the strike, US officials accused Syria of having sought to build a secret nuclear reactor and acknowledged that Israel had destroyed it in the raid.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
This involved bombarding samples with neutrons in a small nuclear reactor and carefully counting the gamma rays that were emitted; it was extremely finicky work.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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