nuclear power

noun

physics
: energy that is created by splitting apart the nuclei of atoms

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Both had bought into the Soviet Union’s vision of Pripyat as a gleaming new city that would accompany the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026 Electricity generation from commercial nuclear power plants in the United States began in 1958. Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026 Nothing can top utterly zany inspiration of the postscript, which somehow involves a nuclear power plant and radioactive albino crocodiles. Eric Kohn, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2026 Trump has been adamant that Iran give up its nuclear power ambitions and reopen the Strait of Hormuz in order for the war to end. Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 24 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for nuclear power

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