Example sentences for: plutonium

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

  • 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 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.

  • Quoting a "secret document from the American Department of Energy," it said in its lead story that "Israel has 300 to 500 kilograms of weapon-grade plutonium, which means it can produce at least 250 nuclear weapons."

  • 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.

  • For the outer planets, there are uranium, neptunium, and plutonium.


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