HEU
Britishabbreviation
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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 ● Oct. 20, 2023
But the use of highly enriched uranium, first reported by Physics Today, would contravene the U.S. policy of removing HEU from civilian reactors around the world to keep it from being made into bombs.
From Science Magazine ● May 23, 2023
What they were creating there was technology and confidence, not HEU.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 17, 2015
The last of Ukraine’s HEU was shipped out of the country in March 2012—one reason Sherwood-Randall dubbed the Ukrainians nonproliferation “leaders” and “trailblazers.”
From Time ● Mar. 12, 2014
When he had hanged this adamant in a cord, he comes back, and gives fire to the touchhole: now the powder consumed to a void vacuum— HEU.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
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