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- initialism highly-enriched uranium
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Examples
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Although almost all of the HEU is in some manner guarded, there are many countries where it might nonetheless be acquired, and probably nowhere better than Russia.
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As one physicist in Washington suggested to me, in small masses HEU is so benign that you could sleep with it under your pillow.
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Its weapons-usable HEU is kept in Mayak as oxidized powder, flat metal pucks, elongated ingots, and finely machined warhead hemispheres.
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Although almost all of the HEU is in some manner guarded, there are many countries where it might nonetheless be acquired, and probably nowhere better than Russia.
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As one physicist in Washington suggested to me, in small masses HEU is so benign that you could sleep with it under your pillow.
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Its weapons-usable HEU is kept in Mayak as oxidized powder, flat metal pucks, elongated ingots, and finely machined warhead hemispheres.
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As one physicist in Washington suggested to me, in small masses HEU is so benign that you could sleep with it under your pillow.
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She once tracked "HEU" - highly enriched uranium - from one rogue nation to the next in her clandestine role.
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At the low end of HEU, which is considered to be 20 percent enrichment, nearly a ton would have to be combined before a stockpile could spontaneously ignite.
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At the low end of HEU, which is considered to be 20 percent enrichment, nearly a ton would have to be combined before a stockpile could spontaneously ignite.
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