radioactive waste

  • 101intermediate level waste — noun radioactive waste which does not have the level of heat generation associated with high level waste but which is more dangerously radioactive than low level waste; typically materials which have been irradiated in a nuclear reactor. Abbrev …

  • 102Chemical waste — is a waste that is made from harmful chemicals (mostly produced by large factories). Chemical waste may fall under regulations such as COSHH in the United Kingdom, or the Clean Water Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act in the United… …

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  • 103List of waste management topics — This page has a list of waste management topics:*Anaerobic digestion *ArrowBio *Autoclave *Best management practice for water pollution (BMP) *Bioaccumulation *Biodegradability prediction *Biodegradation *Biodrying *Biogas *(Biogas powerplant:… …

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  • 104Nuclear Waste Management Organization (Canada) — Nuclear Waste Management Organization Abbreviation NWMO Formation 2002 Type Non profit Canadian organization Purpose/focus Long term management of Canada s used nuclear fuel Headquarters …

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  • 105Office of the United States Nuclear Waste Negotiator — The Office of the United States Nuclear Waste Negotiator was a short lived independent agency of the federal government of the United States during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The agency was responsible for the placement and long term storage …

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  • 106Low Level Waste Repository — (LLW Repository Ltd) is the UK s Low Level (Radioactive) Waste Repository located on the West Cumbrian coast approximately six km south east of the Sellafield nuclear site at Drigg village.In early 2008 Cumbria County Council granted permission… …

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  • 107Nuclear Waste News — is a biweekly newsletter covering the controversies surrounding the storage, treatment, transport, and disposal of radioactive waste. Features reporting on DOE and EPA regulation … news on the proposed Yucca Mountain repository, the Uniontown… …

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  • 108low level waste — noun radioactive waste in which there are low levels of radioactivity per mass or volume. Abbrev.: LLW Compare high level waste …

  • 109nuclear waste — radioaktyviosios atliekos statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Panaudotas branduolinis kuras ir kitos radioaktyviosios medžiagos, kurių tolesnis technologinis naudojimas yra netikslingas arba negalimas. Saugomos 3–5 metus… …

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  • 110nuclear waste — ► NOUN ▪ radioactive waste material, especially from the use or reprocessing of nuclear fuel …

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