The word "reactors" is correct in written English
It is typically used to refer to devices or structures that facilitate a chemical reaction, often in the context of nuclear energy or chemical processes.
Example: "The nuclear reactors in the power plant are designed to generate electricity safely."
Alternatives: "nuclear plants" or "reaction vessels."
Austria is to launch a legal challenge against the European Union's (EU) decision to allow billions of pounds of subsidies for Hinkley Point C, casting fresh doubt over the UK's first planned nuclear reactors in 20 years.
His suggestion was to build 100 new nuclear reactors, to provide emissions-free power, and double government-sponsored research.
In January he met Putin in Moscow secretly, secured a €10bn line of credit from the Russians, and awarded contracts to Moscow for the building of two new reactors at Hungary's sole nuclear power plant.
In return, the North were promised petroleum and the construction of two light water reactors – which they claimed would be used for civilian electricity production.
Murkowski opposed building more reactors without first establishing a permanent respository for nuclear waste, a spokesman said.
EDF Energy operates 15 nuclear reactors in Britain but its other reactors have a different boiler design and the company said it did not see a risk of them suffering from the same fault.
So news last week that at least two of the officials assessing the safety case for new reactors at Hinkley Point C were on the pension roll of the scheme's developers, EDF, was not encouraging.
The ongoing problems at Heysham 1 and Hartlepool reactors, taken offline last month, forced Centrica, a 20% owner of the atomic fleet with EDF, to issue a profit warning.
The businessman is a known advocate of nuclear power, while Lovins earlier this year called Britain's plans to build a new generation of reactors as unbelievable".
The US responded by halting all petroleum shipments, and the light water reactors were never finished.
But reporters cannot fail to be distracted by one of the most striking and worrying by-products of that effort: a mushrooming plantation of enormous water tanks (pictured).Engineers pour water onto the melted uranium fuel in the bottom of the plant's three most-damaged reactors to keep it from overheating.
