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HEU

British  

abbreviation

  1. highly enriched uranium

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Of the 171 research reactors that ran on HEU, 71 have switched to low-enriched fuel and 28 have shut down, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency—although five U.S. research reactors still use HEU.

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