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
• In 1994, North Korea was thought to have one or two bombs’ worth of plutonium.
  — Michael J. Mazarr, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2017
• 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
• Last year, as crews demolished a plant, unknown amounts of plutonium dust were swept up and blown for miles.
  — latimes.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Downe is the kind of rock lifer able to wade through grunge-era backlash and decades of plutonium-level partying and live to tell.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al.com, 9 July 2019
• 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
• The Hanford site near Richland was used to make plutonium for atomic weapons.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 11 Dec. 2018
• 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
• The expedition to place the device was thwarted by heavy snowfall so the team cached the equipment––including some 10 pounds of plutonium to power a generator––and planned to return the next spring to finish the task.
  — Anna Callaghan, Outside Online, 6 June 2019
• Her grandparents lived about 30 miles from Kokura, where the bomb with Hanford plutonium was planned to be dropped.
  — Annette Cary | Tri-City Herald, oregonlive.com, 9 June 2019
• But our guys don’t get rid of the opposition by sticking plutonium in their teacups.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2018
• Loro Piana ball caps, gazillion-ply cashmere and Tom Ford suede the color of plutonium?
  — Jacob Gallagher, wsj.com, 22 Apr. 2023
• The plutonium bomb acquired the nickname Fat Man; the uranium bomb was Little Boy.
  — Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
• Scientists still don't know the lifetime of a plutonium pit.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
• At the time the Agreed Framework was concluded, North Korea was believed to possess enough plutonium for at least one bomb.
  — Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2017
• 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
• That accord, called the Agreed Framework, was a document of just a few pages in which North Korea agreed to halt all production of plutonium.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 2 June 2018
• When things go awry, Hunt suddenly faces a choice: save Stickell, or protect the plutonium.
  — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 27 July 2018
• 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 uranium atoms that are produced by the decay process also knock plutonium atoms out of their place in the structure, similarly changing the pit’s properties.
  — Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
• As for next steps, the team is hoping to model the exact position the sun held in the sky about seven million years ago, a time when other research has spotted another peak in the plutonium and iron isotopes associated with interstellar clouds.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024