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reactor

[ree-ak-ter] / riˈæk tər /
NOUN
electrical device
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems is building a demonstration reactor in Massachusetts and planning to follow it with a commercial project in Virginia to deliver power to the grid in the early 2030s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

“The U.S. is short of enrichment, and we need to build up that capability regardless of reactor type,” says Mark Corigliano, founder of Corigliano Investment Advisers, who likes the stock.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Norway, which has never had a nuclear plant, greenlit an impact assessment for a small modular reactor in March.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

To investigate these processes, the team used a plasma flow reactor designed to mimic part of the environment inside a nuclear fireball.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

But the possibility of a nuclear reactor losing every source of power at once had never seemed real, so no one had thought through solutions ahead of time.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland




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