HEU

British  

abbreviation

1. highly enriched uranium

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Example Sentences

In 1990, Iraqi president Saddam Hussein secretly ordered a crash program to extract HEU from his foreign-supplied research reactor fuel to make an atomic bomb—after his invasion of neighboring Kuwait—but a U.N. intervention fortunately evicted his troops and interrupted the plot before it could succeed.

From Scientific American

The U.S.-led program has helped contain nuclear proliferation and prevent nuclear terrorism by converting 71 reactors in the U.S. and abroad from HEU to LEU fuel, even tiny ones containing only one kilogram of HEU.

From Scientific American

The irony is that other countries have voiced identical arguments to lobby for their own use of HEU, but the U.S. government for half a century has rejected such pleas, emphasizing that nonproliferation is worth the extra expense and that the U.S. practices what it preaches.

From Scientific American

In the 1950s and ’60s, the U.S. helped build research reactors around the world, providing HEU for many of them.

From Science Magazine

In the 1970s, it changed course and led efforts to remove HEU from those reactors and repatriate it.

From Science Magazine