They had been interested in thorium -- a radioactive element that can fuel nuclear reactors but not be processed into weapons.

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We have theories--mathematical theories-- that lead us to devise financial structures, which are complicated devices just like engines or nuclear reactors.

金融学中的理论,数学理论,能帮助我们构造金融工具,金融工具就像发动机,或者核反应堆一样,都是复杂的工具

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Like when they devised the first engines or the first nuclear reactors, it didn't work so well at first and then from the experience of many people working on it, over many years, a body of knowledge emerges and that's what we call technology.

这和发明出第一个发动机,或者第一个核反应堆时一样,最开始总是存在很多问题,但随着很多人不断努力去完善它,一种理论体系才得以不断发展,这就是我们所说的科技

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Rather than proposing a few more big nuclear reactors, the start-ups are advocating many small nuclear reactors, variously called small, right-sized or modular.

WSJ: The New Nuclear Revolution

Second, nuclear reactors can only be run above maximum capacity for a short period before they begin experiencing complications, so each region maintains backup facilities to burn fuel oil or natural gas at peak periods or for when the nuclear reactors are offline.

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Ukrainian opposition leader Vyacheslav Kirilenko submittted a bill to parliament to ban completion of two new nuclear reactors at the Khmelnitskaya nuclear power plant, set to go online in 2016.

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