radioactive waste
Example Sentences
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Fourth-generation reactors—often small and modular—are designed for efficiency, affordability, minimal long-lived radioactive waste and inherent accident safety.
They’re managing this thing, selling holdings that look shaky before they turn into radioactive waste.
From MarketWatch
To address concerns about the safety of nuclear power and radioactive waste, Oregon lawmakers created the Nuclear and Thermal Energy Council.
From Salon
In China, environmental damage from years of processing rare earths has led to chemicals and radioactive waste seeping into waterways - cities and people bearing the scars of decades of poor regulation.
From BBC
The files said one incident, in August 2019, resulted in the release of "unnecessary radioactive waste" in the form of low levels of tritium, which is used in nuclear warheads.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
