nuclear energy

noun

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

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In the 2001 episode shot above Times Square, the poet Michael Stipe sits regal in a Victorian skirt and peppers Automatic for the People and Reveal songs with a rant about George Bush’s nuclear energy policy. Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 22 Aug. 2025 Solar doesn’t have as many awful geopolitical implications as fossil fuels or nuclear energy. Lee Billings, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2025 Nuclear win : Alphabet's Google and the nuclear energy company Kairos Power announced on Monday the deployment of an advanced nuclear plant to the grid. Jeff Marks, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025 Instead, the world over will have to increase more reliable energy sources, particularly coal, natural gas and that other bugaboo of environmentalists, nuclear energy. Peter Murphy, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nuclear energy

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