radioactive waste
71waste — n. 1) to cause waste 2) to cut down on waste 3) hazardous; nuclear; radioactive; solid; toxic wastes 4) (misc.) to go to waste ( to be wasted ); to lay waste to ( to destroy ); a terrible waste of time and money * * * [weɪst] a terrible waste of… …
72waste — ▪ I. waste waste 1 [weɪst] noun 1. [uncountable] unwanted materials or substances that are left after a particular process: • The factory s byproduct waste is used to feed pigs. • illegal disposal of hazardous waste • Our primary business is… …
73waste — I UK [weɪst] / US noun Word forms waste : singular waste plural wastes *** 1) a) [singular/uncountable] the failure to use something valuable in an effective way, so that it does not produce the benefits that it could All this uneaten food – what …
74radioactive — adj. VERBS ▪ be ▪ become ▪ remain ADVERB ▪ dangerously, highly ▪ …
75waste product — noun a) an unwanted material produced during some manufacturing process, especially radioactive material from nuclear reactors b) the unwanted results of metabolism, expelled in the urine and faeces …
76Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository — Yucca Mountain The proposed design …
77Nuclear Waste Policy Act — During the first 40 years that nuclear waste was being created in the United States, no legislation was enacted to manage its disposal. Nuclear waste, some of which remains dangerously radioactive with a half life of more than one million years,… …
78Low level waste — (LLW) is a term used to describe nuclear waste that does not fit into the categorical definitions for high level waste (HLW), spent nuclear fuel (SNF), transuranic waste (TRU), or certain byproduct materials known as 11e(2) wastes, such as… …
79Hazardous waste in the United States — Under United States environmental policy, a hazardous waste is a waste (usually a solid waste) that has the potential to:*cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating… …
80High level waste — (HLW) is a type of nuclear waste that arises from the use of uranium fuel in a nuclear reactor and nuclear weapons processing. It contains the fission products and transuranic elements generated in the reactor core. HLW accounts for over 95% of… …
