The Collaborative International Dictionary
nuclear energy \nuclear energy\ n. Energy derived from nuclear reactions; -- used at present especially of electrical power generated in atomic reactors, but encompassing also fusion energy.
Syn: atomic energy, atomic power, nuclear energy, nuclear power.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context physics English) the energy released by a nuclear reaction; either through nuclear fission or nuclear fusion 2 such energy used as a power source
WordNet
n. the energy released by a nuclear reaction [syn: atomic energy]
Wikipedia
Nuclear energy may refer to:
- Nuclear power, the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity
- Nuclear binding energy, the energy required to split a nucleus of an atom
- Nuclear Energy (sculpture), a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore in the University of Chicago
- Nuclear potential energy, the potential energy of the particles inside an atomic nucleus
Nuclear Energy is a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore that is located on the campus of the University of Chicago at the site of the world's first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1. The first man-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated here on December 2, 1942.
Usage examples of "nuclear energy".
Still less did anyone expect the torrent of practical applications, with their massive social fallout, that would follow from the new theories: television and telephones in almost every home, personal computers, supersonic aircraft, humans to the Moon and observing equipment to the planets, lasers, genetic engineering, video recorders, antibiotics, CAT scans, nuclear energy plants and nuclear bombs, and artificial satellites in regular use for communications, weather, and monitoring of the Earth's surface.
Iraq's nuclear effort began in 1971, when Saddam enjoined a small group of physicists to start a nuclear energy program as the cover for a weapons program.
This is where nuclear energy really emerges in a class of its own—.
Oppenheimer's superhuman efforts to give us the bomb ended the Second World War and gave the world safe nuclear energy.
The Pump's virtues were clear and obvious, as clear as non-pollution and as obvious as for-free, yet there might have been a longer rear-guard fight by those who wanted nuclear energy, not because it was better but because it had been the friend of their childhood.
And yet, so complete was the fiction that families down for a warm weekend to swim and hunt fossils still often wound up going up to the visitor's center and getting the Gas and Electric Company's spiel on the wonders and safety of nuclear energy in general and this plant in particular.
This leaves fear of radiation as probably the only effective weapon for carrying on the crusade against nuclear energy, as well as justifying what has become a lucrative and no-doubt for some, morally gratifying, cleanup industry.
What little I know of nuclear energy I learned in school as I was growing from hatchlinghood.
That's everything: electric power, coal, nuclear energy, burning buffalo chips, cars -- you name it.