What does PU stand for?

Plutonium

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Samples in periodicals archive:

3 tons of plutonium from seven power utilities, including Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Japan: JAPAN S J-POWER BUYS PLUTONIUM TO BE USED AS NUKE REACTOR FUEL

An independent safety oversight board is warning that a major earthquake could cause a catastrophic fire triggering a massive radiation leak at the main plutonium laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Study: Quake could pose risk to Los Alamos lab

Reprocessing of spent fuel rods is at its final phase and extracted plutonium is being weaponised," the agency quoted its permanent representative to the United Nations as saying.

NKorea says in final phase of uranium enrichment

Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials has ordered a federal laboratory to stop using radioactive materials until it can show its procedures are safe after a plutonium spill.

Inspectors back in Colo. lab after plutonium spill

A new generation of nuclear power plants could burn 100 tonnes of surplus weapons-grade plutonium as a good way of keeping it away from terrorists, according to scientists working for the European Union.

Reactors could burn weapons plutonium

Josef Hebert; The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Energy Department plans to send plutonium in Washington state and at research laboratories in New Mexico and California to the Savannah River nuclear complex in South Carolina to improve security and reduce storage costs.

Hanford plutonium going to S. Carolina; Energy Dept. plan; ...

Brian Grant and a female colleague were exposed to plutonium as they disposed of contaminated bricks at the Dounreay plant in Caithness.

Nuke plant bosses fined pounds 15k

Around 83,000 tonnes of acid containing 20 tonnes of uranium and 160kg of plutonium escaped from a broken pipe into a sealed concrete holding site at the site.

Sellafield fined