Plutonium

Synonyms & similar words

Common collocations

• plutonium-239
• plutonium bomb
• plutonium production
• plutonium oxide
• plutonium fuel
• plutonium waste
• plutonium enrichment

Word family

Example sentences

1. Plutonium is a dangerous metal that is used to make nuclear bombs.
2. Scientists use plutonium to power spacecraft.
3. The nuclear reactor was fueled by plutonium.
4. Plutonium is a toxic substance that can harm living things.
5. The miners who extracted plutonium from the earth were at risk of radiation exposure.

Quotes

• Nuclear power is an important part of our energy mix, and we need to responsibly develop all of America's energy resources. This includes pursuing advanced technologies for harnessing nuclear power, like nuclear fuel reprocessing and developing advanced reactor designs like those supported by the Department of Energy's Next Generation Nuclear Plant program. By developing technologies like these, we can make nuclear power even safer and more secure, and further reduce the risks associated with nuclear materials like plutonium.

• I think that I shall never see / A billboard lovely as a tree. / Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, / I'll never see a tree at all. / Radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and 1960s deposited significant amounts of plutonium in soils throughout the southwestern United States. The resulting contamination is still present today and continues to pose a risk to human health and the environment.

• We call upon all states to immediately cease development, production, acquisition and transfer of nuclear weapons, to decommission existing nuclear weapons in a verifiable and irreversible manner, to immediately cease development and deployment of nuclear-weapon delivery systems, and to immediately commence negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control. We call upon all states to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.