enriched
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By common understanding, uranium must be enriched to a level of 20 percent purity to be deemed “highly enriched” and 90 percent to be “weapons-grade.”
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
Iran denies ever seeking nuclear weapons but has produced about 1,000 pounds of 60% enriched uranium, near weapons-grade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
"No matter how you slice it, TOI-5882 is so enriched in lithium it shows up as being at least in the 97th percentile."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
There are a few other critical points: The extent of monitoring, what happens to the nuclear facilities, and what happens to that highly enriched uranium.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
