Sentence examples for atomic power plant from inspiring English sources

Only 16km from Lockerbie stands the Chapelcross atomic power plant, one of the oldest in Britain.

There is also an alarming account of a visit to an atomic power plant.

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Forbidding under a cold, gray sky, the dead atomic power plant here is a living enterprise.

There his nuclear skills helped integrate an atomic power plant into Galileo, a $1.6 billion spacecraft destined to study Jupiter and its 16 moons.

The plans for the UK's first new atomic power plant in a generation, at Hinkley Point, have already run into controversy.

It includes an absurd -- but, it seems, seriously intended -- vision of an Art Moderne atomic power plant with orange breast-shaped cooling towers and turbines driven by leather belts.

Conventional atomic power plants generate energy by the fission, or splitting, of heavy atoms of uranium or plutonium.

Atomic power plants now in operation use the fission principle that produces the atomic bomb.

Two giant atomic power plants dominate the flat shingle shoreline of this blustery bit of the Channel coast.

And he says that pouring money into new atomic power plants can only take investment away from renewables, whose costs are dropping, unlike those of atomic power.

Q. Rather than put the earth's environment at risk, why not periodically shoot small loads of the waste from atomic power plants into space?