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I am not sure what exactly you mean by "reactive power" (I guess you mean electrical reactive power), but power is the ratio of energy for a period of time. So that makes power (and reactive power as well) a scalar, since you can describe it with only one number. The fact that electrical reactive power is drawn on a XY plane, should not confuse you.

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