nuclear station

collocation in English

meaningsofnuclearandstation

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nuclear
adjective
uk
/ˈnjuː.klɪər/us
/ˈnuː.kliː.ɚ/
being or using the power produced when the nucleus of an atom is divided or joined to ...
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station
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsteɪ.ʃən/us
/ˈsteɪ.ʃən/
a building and the surrounding area where buses or trains stop for people to get on ...
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(Definition ofnuclearandstationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Since the depreciation charges are a very substantial part of the cost of electricity generated in anuclearstation, this is a vitally important point.
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Nonuclearstationhas been ordered since 1970 and there is only one in the offing for 1976.
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Anuclearstationcan operate in no other way and coal cannot operate economically in any other way.
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There are no plans to build anuclearstation.
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But it is also true that in anuclearstationthe basic cost is the capital cost.
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I think therefore that it is entirely wrong that thenuclearstationshould be put together with one of the two generating stations.
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The rest of thenuclearstationconsists of conventional mechanical and electrical engineering.
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In the second set of drawings there are fewer buildings around thenuclearstation.
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The building of anothernuclearstationin the immediate future, or even in the next few years, therefore seems unlikely.
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It could either be a coal ornuclearstation, but it would be a base load station.
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Up to the moment, nonuclearstationhas been built in the coalfields.
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What happens if there is even a minor accident at anuclearstationduring the decommissioning process?
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We are given to understand that anuclearstationwould cost in the region of £130 million.
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The consortium method enables the novel design and construction problems of anuclearstationto be tackled as a whole.
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At any rate, it is a scandal to build anuclearstationon top of a coalfield.
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A proposal to build a privatenuclearstationwould be an unusual and rare event.
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They also include the danger of radioactive fall-out from an explosion at anuclearstation.
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The comparable figure of a thermal ornuclearstationmight well be 400 acres.
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It is generally reckoned that under normal operating conditions there is more radioactivity from a coal-fired power station than there is from anuclearstation.
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As with other electricity generation options, decisions onnuclearstationlifetimes are a commercial matter for the generating companies.
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