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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nuclear waste
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 being spent on the storage of nuclear waste.
▪ Nor can the market get rid of or store nuclear waste.
▪ When they did so, they hoped that reprocessing could cut the cost of disposing of nuclear waste.
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nuclear waste

n. The more or less radioactive waste produced by nuclear reactors and others.

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.