reactor
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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
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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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