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reactor

[ree-ak-ter] / riˈæk tər /
NOUN
electrical device
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Measurements of this kind could become valuable for independently confirming reactor status and tracking spent-fuel inventories.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

Over that period, the detector recorded around 100 antineutrino candidate events linked to residual radioactivity in the reactor cores and nearby spent-fuel cooling pools.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

A sixth reactor was already offline for scheduled maintenance.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

This year marked 40 years since the Chernobyl nuclear accident which caused a reactor to start spewing out radioactive material that would spread across swathes of Europe.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

They may be launched outward, into the shell of the nuclear reactor.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

In the coming years, he said India will have eight more semiconductor chip plants and five nuclear reactors which will generate 100 gigawatts of power by 2047.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

TAO is working to isolate that weak emission, while the Double Chooz findings now provide the first published benchmark for studying the residual signal from shut-down reactors and spent-fuel pools.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

They launched the company last year and took it public with audacious plans to build four big nuclear reactors and a slew of other power generation, largely natural gas, to power the AI boom.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

The Cernavodă plant, where two reactors produce about 20% of Romania's electricity, is not expected to be restarted within the next 10 days.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

In the control room for reactors 3 and 4, operators couldn’t check the backup systems until the quake had passed.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland




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