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UOX fuel
UOX fuel, short for uranium oxide fuel, is nuclear reactor fuel made of ceramic uranium dioxide pellets in zirconium alloy cladding tubes, the predominant fuel of the commercial nuclear industry.
Up (2009 film)
Up (2009) is a Pixar CGI-animated comedy-adventure directed by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, starring Ed Asner as Carl Fredricksen. It opened Cannes 2009, was Pixar's first Disney Digital 3-D film, and won Oscars for Animated Feature and Original Score.
Up (film series)
The Up series is a British documentary that has revisited fourteen people every seven years since 1964, testing the maxim "Give me the child until he is seven."
Up (R.E.M. album)
Up (1998) is R.E.M.'s eleventh studio album and first without drummer Bill Berry, an electronic-leaning record produced by Pat McCarthy that peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, No. 2 in the UK, and was reissued in 2023.
UP Aerospace
UP Aerospace is a privately held American suborbital launch company founded by former Lockheed Martin engineer Jerry Larson, flying research and educational payloads on SpaceLoft rockets from Spaceport America, New Mexico, since 2006.
Up Against It (2026 film)
Up Against It (also known as Rose's Baby) is a 2026 British comedy-drama-romance directed by Trudie Styler, starring Antonio Banderas and Eva Birthistle as divorced parents asked to conceive a saviour-sibling child to save their leukemic teenage daughter; premiered at TIFF 2026.
Up All Night (One Direction album)
Up All Night is the 2011 debut studio album by One Direction, led by "What Makes You Beautiful," with 13 songs on its standard edition.
Up All Night: Live in 2025
Up All Night: Live in 2025 was Jennifer Lopez's fifth concert tour and first since 2019, announced April 2025, running July 8 to August 2025 across 21 shows in 12 countries, opening in Pontevedra, Spain, as a greatest-hits show after her canceled 2024 This Is Me… Live tour.
UP Board
The UP Board is a credit card-sized x86 single-board computer developed by AAEON, a subsidiary of ASUS, launched on Kickstarter in 2015 and shipped from May 2016.
Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery is a 1901 autobiography by American educator Booker T. Washington, tracing his rise from slavery to founding the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Up Helly Aa
Up Helly Aa, also known as Lerwick Up Helly Aa, is a winter fire festival in Shetland, Scotland, where costumed guizers burn a replica Viking longship.
Up Here
Up Here is a 2023 Hulu musical romantic comedy series, adapted from Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez's 2015 stage musical, starring Mae Whitman and Carlos Valdes as lovers in 1999 New York; eight episodes, cancelled after one season.
Up in Smoke
Up in Smoke (1978), also called Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke, is a Paramount comedy directed by Lou Adler, the first stoner comedy, starring Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong; it earned over $44 million.
Up in Smoke Tour
The Up in Smoke Tour was a 2000 North American hip-hop package tour headlined by Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, and Eminem; 44 shows, over $22.2 million grossed, and a 2000 concert film DVD.
Up in the Air (2009 film)
Up in the Air is Jason Reitman's 2009 comedy-drama starring George Clooney as corporate downsizer Ryan Bingham, adapted from Walter Kirn's 2001 novel. It earned six Oscar nominations, six Golden Globe nominations, and National Board of Review Best Film.
Up quark
The up quark is the lightest elementary particle of the quark type, with electric charge +2/3 e; two up quarks plus a down quark form each proton.
Up rising
Up rising (UpRising, Uprising) names several unrelated entities: an Australian high school design-student program with Good Design Australia, a UK youth leadership charity for 18-25 year-olds, and Uprising FC of the Anguilla Football League.
Up the Yangtze
Up the Yangtze (2007) is Yung Chang's EyeSteelFilm and NFB documentary following teenagers Yu Shui (Cindy) and Chen Bo Yu (Jerry) working a Three Gorges Farewell Cruise; 93 minutes, Sundance selection, 96% Rotten Tomatoes.
Up to eleven
"Up to eleven" is an English idiom from the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, where Nigel Tufnel's amp knobs run to 11 instead of 10; it means at or beyond maximum, and entered the Shorter OED in 2002.
Up to No Good (TV series)
Up to No Good, also titled Maud, is a 2026 British six-part Channel 4 crime drama starring Glenn Close as killer Maud Oldcastle, adapted from Helene Tursten's Elderly Lady story collections, written by Nina and Moses Raine and directed by Lee Haven Jones.
Up Town
Up Town (Arabic: اب تاون) is an entertainment and shopping complex in Damascus, Syria, opened in 2014 with a mall, amusement park, restaurants, and sports facilities on 38,000 square meters.
Up Where We Belong
"Up Where We Belong" is a 1982 duet by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes, written by Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Will Jennings for An Officer and a Gentleman; it topped the Billboard Hot 100 and won the Oscar for Best Original Song.
Up with People
Up with People (UWP), begun as Sing-Out '65, was a touring youth performing-arts and educational organization founded by J. Blanton Belk in 1965 as an offshoot of Moral Re-Armament, incorporated in 1968, known for Super Bowl halftime shows and world-leader performances, suspended in 2000, and relaunched as WorldSmart and later VOICES programs.
Up-Front Works discography
The Up-Front Works discography catalogs releases by the Japanese publisher Up-Front Works, whose flagship label Zetima is best known for Hello! Project acts including Morning Musume.
Up-titration
Up-titration is a dosing strategy in which a drug's dose is increased step by step toward a target dose proven in trials or the highest tolerated dose.
Up! (album)
Up! (2002) is Shania Twain's fourth studio album, produced and co-written by Mutt Lange and released on Mercury Nashville in three same-tracklist versions: red pop/rock, green country, and blue international mixes. It was RIAA Diamond certified, Twain's third Diamond album.
Upadacitinib
Upadacitinib (Rinvoq) is AbbVie's oral selective JAK1 inhibitor, EU-authorized December 2019, approved for atopic dermatitis, rheumatoid arthritis, and other immune-mediated diseases, with boxed class warnings for infections, MACE, and malignancy.
Upadhyaksha (ಉಪಾಧ್ಯಕ್ಷ)
Upadhyaksha (ಉಪಾಧ್ಯಕ್ಷ) is a 2024 Kannada comedy, sequel to Adhyaksha (2014), directed by Anil Kumar, starring Chikkanna in his lead debut as Narayana, released 26 January 2024.
Upadrasta Ramamurty
Upadrasta Ramamurty is an Indian materials scientist and mechanical engineer, President's Chair Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, who won the 2011 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for work on amorphous alloys.
Upagupta
Upagupta (उपगुप्त) was a Buddhist monk of Mathura whom Sanskrit tradition honors as the fourth patriarch after the Buddha and as the spiritual teacher who converted Emperor Ashoka.