reactor
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Amazon just made a new nuclear energy investment that could expand the capacity of America’s reactor fleet.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 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
A safer way to play nuclear is to buy shares of large, profitable utilities with reactor fleets such as Constellation Energy or NRG Energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
They include aspiring uranium suppliers as well as small, advanced and micro reactor, or SAMR, developers, nuclear-reactor supply chain firms and investors, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Operators needed to get water into the reactor to slow the runaway reactions.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Two of the projects, which The Wall Street Journal reported on last month, involve the construction of a natural-gas power plant and eight nuclear reactors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
But like much of America’s aging nuclear fleet, the reactors came online in the 1970s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
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
Cleanup workers had been trying to get a look inside reactors 1, 2, and 3 for years.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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