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nuclear waste
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The more or less radioactive waste produced by nuclear reactors and others.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Britain has already accumulated enough nuclear waste to build 5,000 atom bombs. ▪ For nuclear waste , disposal into space is more feasible but has been discounted on numerous occasions because of the risks. ▪ Immense sums are ...
Usage examples of nuclear waste.
Once it had generated power, made medical isotopes, run three reprocessing lines and a nuclear waste-packaging plant.
All nuclear waste contained in this station - now stored in Section Number Eight - must be reprocessed in the quickest possible time, and the blocks laid to rest in granite with a minimum escape of radiation.
After ten years of burial nuclear waste would be about as toxic as barium if it were ingested.
The big gray sheds were for reprocessing nuclear waste, extracting usable fuel from spent material.
Certain legislators are looking to pass laws stating that my state (Illinois) will not take nuclear waste from states that don't take our nuclear waste.
Bay State Electric has got all this stuff in its files, along with the elevated cancer rates in the areas surrounding American nuclear-power facilities, the water contaminated by nuclear waste - the water in deep aquifers, the water people wash their clothes and their dishes and themselves in, the water they drink.