atomic power
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of atomic power
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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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
Today, Germany gets almost half of its electricity from renewables - 44% in 2022, according to the Federal Statistical Office - and just 6% from atomic power.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 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
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