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The spent fuel is very dangerous—it contains a lot of very radioactive stuff.

The spent fuel storage in Ukraine was designed to be very strong, and under normal operation maybe it could even resist the jumbo jet fall.

First, the solid waste sites around Badin, which contain toxins from the spent potliner.

As frequent rocket launches make space more accessible, spent vehicles are plummeting back to Earth.

In 1982, the US Congress enacted the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which requires the US Department of Energy to find a geological repository for the spent fuel and take it there.

As far as I can tell, this magazine spent as much time making fun of French politicians as it did of Muslims or Islam.

Thus, more time is spent organization and obtaining ones free of failings.

Humans spent a long time domesticating cattle, and what they were trying to do, in essence, was de-domesticate them.

So when my wife and I moved to Laurel Canyon I spent my first year working night and day on the show.

I spent time yesterday listening to the music you made, and looking at the art you created.

Fatigue he never knew, and on one occasion he was said to have spent thirteen days and nights in the saddle.

He asked what time was usually spent in determining between right and wrong, and what degree of expense?

This tiny person spent little or none of his time in the tree-tops, but chose to stay near the ground.

In the next year his mother returned to India with both her children, and the boy's next two years were spent at and near Bombay.

The year before they had spent part of the summer with their grandmother Pontellier in Iberville.

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On this page you'll find 96 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to spent, such as: dead, finished, lost, used, wasted, and blown.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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