What does HE stand for?

Fear that Israel or India might launch airstrikes on Pakistan's nuclear facilities, though, prompted Islamabad to request a loan of highly enriched uranium from Beijing that same year, Khan wrote.

Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has rejected a Western proposal offering Tehran to swap its low-enriched for highly enriched nuclear fuel for its Tehran reactor, a prominent legislator said on Saturday.

Iranian officials have said it is more economical to purchase the more highly enriched uranium needed for the Tehran reactor than to produce it domestically.

In his earlier testimony to Congress, Blair has said Iran could have enough highly enriched uranium for a bomb as early as 2010 or as late as 2015, and noted that INR believed it would not be before 2013 "because of foreseeable technical and programmatic problems.

Summary: The International Atomic Energy Agency has launched an investigation regarding traces of highly enriched uranium it located at an Egyptian nuclear research facility The International Atomic Energy Agency has launched an investigation regarding traces of highly enriched uranium it located at an Egyptian nuclear research facility, according to Reuters.

Summary: The United Nations nuclear watchdog is investigating the discovery of traces of highly enriched uranium at a nuclear research site in Egypt, according to a restricted International Atomic Energy The United Nations nuclear watchdog is investigating the discovery of traces of highly enriched uranium at a nuclear research site in Egypt, according to a restricted International Atomic Energy Agency report obtained by Reuters.

North Korea is operating a secret underground plant to make nuclear bombs from highly enriched uranium (HEU) despite denying that such a programme exists, a South Korean newspaper said Wednesday.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But there are safer options to make the isotopes without using highly enriched uranium, said the speakers.