NOUN
- useless radioactive materials that are left after some laboratory or commercial process is completed
How To Use radioactive waste In A Sentence
- Residents of a kampong in Tangerang, west of Jakarta, have been exposed to radioactive waste for at least nine years.
- A new report by two high-powered official committees lambasts the government and the nuclear industry for failing to keep more than 65,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste safe.
- The government declared that it did not dump radioactive waste at sea.
- These secretive facilities house the deadly legacies of the Cold War: nuclear weapons, radioactive waste and toxic chemicals.
- Documents leaked to this newspaper purport to reveal that radioactive waste is being illegally dumped on the site.
- These secretive facilities house the deadly legacies of the Cold War: nuclear weapons, radioactive waste and toxic chemicals.
- The agency ruled Thursday that the repository in salt beds near Carlsbadabout 300 miles southeast of Albuquerquecould safely contain radioactive waste.
- The Stockholm Conference in 1972 had called for a registry of emissions of radioactivity and international co-operation on radioactive waste disposal and reprocessing.
- Environmental groups deplored the failure of the convention to impose an absolute ban on the dumping of radioactive waste.
- Future generations might actually find our radioactive wastes valuable, just as old mine tailings are a useful source of precious metals today.
