enriched uranium

English

Noun

enriched uranium (uncountable)

2. (chemistry, military) Uranium enriched with a higher than normal amount of the fissile isotope U-235; used in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.

   Antonyms: DU, depleted uranium

   Hypernyms: U, uranium

   Hyponyms: LEU, low-enriched uranium, HALEU, high-assay low-enriched uranium, SEU, slightly enriched uranium, HEU, highly enriched uranium

   Coordinate terms: NU, natural uranium

   • 1973, Johan Galtung, “The military aspect”, in The European Community: A Superpower in the Making, Oslo; London: Universitetsforlaget; George Allen & Unwin, via National Library of Norway, →ISBN, page 107:

     The US supply of enriched uranium to Europe is expected to reach a saturation point in 1981 – and by that time the centrifuge should be able to deliver the goods to a Europe very poor in energy supply and very dependent on Middle East oil.

Translations

uranium enriched with a higher amount of U-235

• Afrikaans: verrykte uraan
• Arabic: يُورَانِيُوم مُخَصَّب m (yūrāniyūm muḵaṣṣab)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 濃縮鈾 / 浓缩铀 (zh) (nóngsuōyóu)

• Finnish: väkevöity uraani
• French: uranium enrichi (fr) m
• German: angereichertes Uran n
• Icelandic: auðgað úran n
• Italian: uranio arricchito m
• Japanese: 濃縮ウラン (ja) (nōshuku uran)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: anriket uran n

  Nynorsk: opprikt uran n

• Polish: wzbogacony uran m
• Russian: обогащённый ура́н m (obogaščónnyj urán)
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• Swedish: anrikat uran (sv) n
• Ukrainian: збага́чений ура́н m (zbaháčenyj urán)