Sentence examples for conventional nuclear from inspiring English sources

For decades, conventional nuclear power and nuclear fusion received dominant shares of government energy-research money.

Conventional nuclear power uses just 0.6% of the energy contained in the uranium that fuels it.

The uranium that makes conventional nuclear power possible has a number of significant disadvantages.

"The technical and economic challenges are enormous compared with other low-emissions technologies like solar power or conventional nuclear power".

Sinha added that India was in talks with other countries over the export of conventional nuclear plants.

In November, the UK government announced £250m in funding for small modular reactors, most of which currently focus on conventional nuclear fission.

It exploits the fact that conventional nuclear power plants use just 0.6% of the energy contained in the uranium that fuels them.

These are much smaller than conventional nuclear plants with a capacity of less than 300MW – or a 10th of what Hinkley Point C should provide.

Advocates of nuclear fusion acknowledge the technology is probably decades away but argue that it could replace fossil fuels and conventional nuclear fission reactors.

This time, North Korea upped the provocation, saying it had tested a hydrogen bomb, which is exponentially more powerful than the first generation of conventional nuclear weapons.

Reactor safety: The safety problem in conventional nuclear plants is that, if things start to go wrong, emergency cooling systems and human operators have to act correctly to prevent a catastrophic meltdown.