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reactor

[ree-ak-ter] / riˈæk tər /
NOUN
electrical device
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The 20-year agreement with Amazon will help extend operations at the plant, where one reactor is up for re-licensing in 2034 and another in 2036, said David Dardis, senior executive vice president at Constellation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Amazon just made a new nuclear energy investment that could expand the capacity of America’s reactor fleet.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a construction permit for a new reactor designed by GE Vernova and Hitachi.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

During the 1960s, its Molten Salt Reactor Experiment demonstrated that mixtures of molten salts could function as both nuclear fuel and reactor coolant.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Seasoned professionals who were trained to navigate towering fires in the skyscrapers of Tokyo, they were nevertheless visibly shaken by the challenge of working close to the open reactor pools.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

The U.S. and South Korea reached a $200 billion deal to build an Alaska natural gas pipeline and eight large-scale nuclear reactors.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The company has a power purchase agreement with Talen Energy at its Susquehanna nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and is funding the development of small modular reactors in Washington at the Cascade Advanced Energy Center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Its landmark cooling towers came down a few years later and defuelling of the nuclear reactors was completed in 2013.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

It also reflects rising demand as utilities look to restart old nuclear reactors or extend the lives of existing ones, according to Jonathan Hinze, president of UxC.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

They desperately needed to get a better sense of what was happening inside those reactors.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland




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