enrichment
Example Sentences
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No more domestic enrichment of uranium for nuclear fuel, the president said.
They told him the talks had gone badly: Tehran wasn’t willing to end its nuclear enrichment or dismantle its missile program, the officials said.
But his red line converged on the demand for zero nuclear enrichment.
From BBC
Iran has repeatedly stated it does not want to build a nuclear weapon and that nuclear enrichment would be for exclusively peaceful purposes.
From Los Angeles Times
Even enrichment to 1.5% purity would constitute half or more of the technical effort needed to achieve weapons-grade uranium.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.