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nuclear waste

British  

noun

  1. another name for radioactive waste

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Key questions the inquiry wants to answer include whether Australia will receive the submarines it will pay for, where and how the nuclear waste will be stored, and if the deal undermines the country's sovereignty.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Blasted into 1.9 billion-year-old stable bedrock in Eurajoki, southwest Finland, the geological repository for spent nuclear waste -- dubbed Onkalo which means "cave" in Finnish -- is nearly ready to start operations.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

The deal wouldn’t require Riyadh to sign the Additional Protocol for snap U.N. inspections or adhere to the “gold standard” of no domestic uranium enrichment and no reprocessing of nuclear waste.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

I’m 76 and won $50,000 in a settlement related to cancer from nuclear waste.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

He was holding the wad of paper towel in his outstretched hand like it was nuclear waste.

From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate

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