atomic power

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The chief of the UN nuclear watchdog said attacks near Iran's Bushehr atomic power plant "pose a very real danger to nuclear safety and must stop".

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

Public anxiety about atomic power remains substantial in a country prone to earthquakes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

Further north, at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata prefecture, the world’s largest atomic power plant by power capacity, the quake caused water to spill from fuel pools of two reactors.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2024

The Leningrad station is Russia's biggest atomic power plant.

From Reuters • May 25, 2023

As befit the man who had challenged Ernest Rutherford’s disparagement of atomic power as “moonshine” back in 1933, Ernest Lawrence’s first instinct was to take the news of fission as vindication.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik