What does RU stand for?

Recycled Uranium

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The nuclear energy giant says only recycled uranium is sent to Russia for enrichment.

Russia: Russia, EDF denies toxic waste storage

The SMP was designed to make new fuel from the recycled uranium and plutonium recovered from used nuclear fuel, which had been reprocessed by the nearby thermal oxide reprocessing plant (Thorp) at Sellafield.

Minister admits nuclear fuel plant produces almost nothing

Since 1995, most of the 104 nuclear-power plants in the United States have at some point used fuel rods made with Russia's recycled uranium.

Dismantling nukes yields a dividend: electricity U.S.-Russian program ...

It also names General Electric, producer of recycled uranium that was shipped to the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in the 1950s and 1960s.

WORKERS AT URANIUM PLANT SUE CONTRACTORS

Technetium, a radioactive metal that travels quickly through soil, was one of the contaminants brought into the plant inadvertently during the 1950s, '60s and '70s in shipments of recycled uranium from government nuclear reactors used to produce plutonium.

HOT MUD SUPPORTS CLAIM OF N-DUMPING NEAR KENTUCKY PLANT