leu
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9.9
- noun
:
lei moldavo
- With ten leu, I was able to buy a ticket for the bus.
Examples
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He saved up enough leu to take his family out for dinner.
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Ming-Chuan Leu,
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The uranium in excess of lifetime fuel requirements could be shipped elsewhere (e.g., 1% LEU sold for CANDU fuel).
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However, the actinides in spent LEU fuel can provide the starting fuel charge for fast-spectrum reactors cooled by liquid metal, and the U-233 in spent thorium fuel can do the same for LFTRs.
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Assuming a thermal efficiency of 30% and a 15% yield of LEU from NU (a figure which would be increased if U were so expensive), the 4.4 MWh input would yield about 43.2 MWh of electricity.
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Make available as much as 4,647 MTU of NU to be enriched to approximately 500 MTU of LEU (at an enrichment of 4.95% 235U).
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Backstopping regular mining is the large supplies of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) and Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) in Russia and the US (75,000 ton surplus at the DOE).
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The price of a loaf of bread in Moldova is about seven leu.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Leu for Moldova's money comes from an old silver coin that showed a lion and from the Latin word leo, which means 'lion'. So leu became the name for the country's currency, like calling it the 'lion' coin.