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What's a nuke plant? As far as I am aware, there is no such thing.

Perhaps you mean a nuclear power station?



I don't know why the downvotes. You must not be a native English Speaker. Let me help.

"Nuke Plant" is a common idiomatic phrase for saying "Nuclear Power Plant".

Let me break it down into parts for you:

"Nuke" is the common short form for "Nuclear" in English.

"Plant" is being used in the dictionary meaning "a place where an industrial or manufacturing process takes place"

"Power" is redundant in the phrase and omitted.

In terms of usage: "Nuclear Power Plant", "Nuclear Power Station", and "Nuke Plant" are all acceptable, but frequency of usage is different. "Nuke Station" is not normally used in this meaning, but people will understand it if you use it.

"Nuclear Power Plant" is about 4 times more common in normal usage in English than "Nuclear Power Station".

"Nuke Plant" and "Nuclear Power Station" are used with about the same frequency.

"Nuke Station" is used very infrequently. You can find examples of it, but it's less than 1% of usage in current English.

Here's a list of news articles that use "Nuke Plant" so you can see usage and become familiar with how the term is used.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0....


Interesting. I have only really seen the term 'nuke' as either referring to nuclear weapons or as a colloquial term for microwaving food.




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