Example sentences for: plutonium

How can you use “plutonium” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Today, alas, what comes to mind is a couple of bad baritones from the Red Army Chorus, drunk on antifreeze, trying to convince some Iraqi guy that their music stands are made of plutonium and worth a few bucks.

  • At the Los Angeles Times , it's the announcement (made while Al Gore was in Moscow on a state visit) that Russia has promised to stop making weapons-grade plutonium.

  • It's happening this week with the revelations about the workers in the federally owned bomb factory in Paducah, Kentucky, who were unknowingly exposed to plutonium for decades.

  • A WP op-ed by two former government nuclear power specialists details an important fact about India's nuclear weapons program that has drawn little notice: the plutonium India dipped into for its recent bomb tests was provided nearly forty years ago as part of an "Atoms for Peace" reactor built by Canada and fueled by the U.S.

  • Strong reviews for this collection of stories set in Soviet Russia: These "crafty, nerve-rattling tales are among the most unusual and interesting now being written" ( Kirkus Reviews ). Characters range from a nuclear reactor employee who tries to steal and sell the plutonium of the title in order to support his family after he gets radiation poisoning, to a girl who is convinced there is a link between her onset of puberty and the death of Stalin.


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