nuclear power plant
Noun
Meaning
nuclear power plant (plural nuclear power plants)
A power plant that obtains its primary energy from the heat generated in nuclear reactions.
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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.
And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.
When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant.
The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
Artificial background radiation Displays showing ambient radiation fields of 0.120-0.130 μSv/h (1.05-1.14 mSv/a) in a nuclear power plant.