highly-enriched uranium (English, noun)
expansion: highly-enriched uranium (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: Enriched uranium containing at least 20% uranium-235 (some applications, such as fission weapons and naval reactors, use uranium enriched to as high as 80-95% uranium-235), and therefore capable of sustaining a nuclear fission chain reaction without needing a moderator; used in nuclear weapons and in a few types of nuclear reactors requiring very high power density or high neutron flux.
tags: uncountable
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