Example sentences for: uranium

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

  • Harding claimed that a thick haze of uranium dust at the plant, operated until the mid-1980s by Union Carbide, covered workers' skin and even their teeth.

  • In one report, Asahi Shimbun said villagers close to the Tokaimura uranium processing plant heard on television they had been told to stay indoors when in fact they had received no instructions whatsoever.

  • And a NYT op-ed piece tells a likewise cautionary tale about nukes, saying that Iraq has arrived at a Scud-launchable atomic bomb design and that to make it work, Saddam only needs 35 pounds of enriched uranium.

  • 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.

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


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