How to Use plutonium in a Sentence

plutonium

noun

• The shoot-out with the Libyans is replaced by a plutonium mishap, and the dog is gone, too.
  — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
• For example, that scene where the plutonium bullet slides down a tube toward the center of the bomb?
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
• If the bomb fizzled, the Jumbo would corral the $250 million worth of plutonium that was the explosive core of the device.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
• Not one word was mentioned about plutonium from the former plant site.
  — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The sharpest sign of change was a surge in radioactive plutonium that started in Crawford Lake’s mud around 1950.
  — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• The golden sand of Bikini Atoll is laced with plutonium.
  — Pete McKenzie, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• Cleanup work on the site where the bombs scattered plutonium continued into the 2010s.
  — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
• If that was true, soil samples would not find plutonium.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 28 Oct. 2019
• There’s a bit of talk about uranium and plutonium and of fusion and fission.
  — Charles Seife, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2023
• This new warhead will require its own new kind of weapons-grade plutonium core.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 Jan. 2020
• In what might be called a sign of overkill, about 70 metric tons of plutonium remained in storage at the sprawling plant when it was shuttered.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
• Most of the ions passed through the target, but over the course of a few weeks, a few collided with a plutonium nucleus and fused into flerovium.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 Feb. 2021
• However, of the 13 pounds of plutonium in the bomb's core -- only three points were combusted.
  — Maria Elena Salinas, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2023
• Loro Piana ball caps, gazillion-ply cashmere and Tom Ford suede the color of plutonium?
  — Jacob Gallagher, wsj.com, 22 Apr. 2023
• Scientists still don't know the lifetime of a plutonium pit.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
• Tungsten, gold, and plutonium would all also be good values to cram into the flat-rate shipping box.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2022
• South Carolina sued three years ago, seeking to force the agency to remove the plutonium or to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 31 Aug. 2020
• The lab is one of two U.S. sites gearing up to manufacture plutonium cores for use in nuclear weapons.
  — Morgan Lee, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2022
• The reactor, known as a fast breeder, excels at making plutonium, a top fuel of atom bombs.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Vilain makes off with the computer, which contains the location of five tons of plutonium, abandoned after the Cold War.
  — Richard Newby, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
• The Hanford project that enriched the plutonium was also critical during the Cold War era before ceasing production at the end of the 1980s.
  — Mike Baker Mason Trinca, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2022
• The complex is home to a 5-megawatt nuclear reactor believed to be used to produce weapons-grade plutonium.
  — Fox News, 14 Aug. 2020
• Perseverance, powered by the heat from a hunk of plutonium, can drive day after day after day.
  — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
• Such reactors use heavy water as a coolant and produce plutonium as a waste product, which can be used in nuclear weapons.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 25 May 2022
• With Yoschenko and others, the institute head Valery Kashparov found that two-thirds of some of the contaminants and almost all the plutonium and strontium have been retained in Ukrainian soil.
  — Jane Braxton Little, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2020
• Villagers in India are worried that recent deadly floods are the result of plutonium hidden in the Himalayas.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2021
• This one—named Smoky—had double the explosive power of the bomb used on Nagasaki, also a plutonium device.
  — Jeremy Bernstein, WSJ, 31 July 2020
• The plutonium used for weapons exists only because people made it.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
• In Hanford, an area half the size of Rhode Island was cleared of residents, their houses bulldozed to make way for reactors to produce plutonium.
  — Andy Kifer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023
• That bongo-playing physicist glimpsed at the Trinity plutonium bomb test in the New Mexico desert?
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024