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"Plutonium" in a Sentence (11 examples)
Plutonium-244 has a half-life of 80 million years.
Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,100 years.
Plutonium has a metallic taste.
Uranium and plutonium are radioactive.
The nuclear plant uses steam produced by plutonium fuel rods to power turbines to create electricity.
Plutonium is hard to come by.
Nuclear bombs are made from uranium or plutonium.
The missiles were 23m long, of which 19m were boosters and 4 meters were the cap of the nuclear missile with radioactive plutonium.
Plutonium? You mean this sucker's nuclear?
The Samson Option states that Moshe Dayan gave the go-ahead for starting weapon production in early 1968, putting the plutonium separation plant into full operation.
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For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the processing of lower grades of radioactive waste for off-site storage.
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