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1983 December 31, Michael Bronski, “A Sharply Focused Film”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 17:
Altman seees his characters as total reactors; everything they do and say is in response to their environment. They do not seem to exist with lives or qualities of their own.
1972, Robert L Pfaltzgraff, Politics and the international system:
It limits the rights of nonweapon countries to develop an export business in civilian reactor technology.
2025 March 4, John Fritze, “Supreme Court wades into decades-old impasse over how to store nuclear waste”, in CNN:
The second is whether the federal agency has the power to license such facilities away from reactor sites where the waste was generated. The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled the NRC does not have the authority to issue licenses to store nuclear fuel away from reactors.
(chemistry) A chemical substance which responds to the presence of, or contact with, another substance.
(electronics) An electrical component with reactance
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Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) ofreator. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.