Example sentences for: plutonium

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

  • They have lots of plutonium and the people there are eating their cats.

  • It's hard to believe that an explosion that vented plutonium into the atmosphere at the country's largest nuclear weapons storage facility doesn't make anybody's front page, but in fact you have to go inside the LAT and WP to read about the "near-complete breakdown in emergency response" at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation two months ago after an accident there, "exposing workers to a toxic plume and leaving outside authorities unaware of the danger until hours after the event."

  • A trained nuclear engineer with an amount of highly enriched uranium or plutonium about the size of a grapefruit or an orange, together with commercially available material, could fashion a nuclear device that would fit in a van like the one Ramzi Yousef parked in the garage of the World Trade Center in 1993.

  • The government-owned plant unwittingly exposed the workers and the environment to small amounts of plutonium, and greatly underestimated the health risks posed by exposure to uranium.

  • The Washington Post goes with the finding of American experts that Russia's economic crisis has left its stocks of uranium and plutonium increasingly vulnerable to theft and diversion.


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