nuclear waste
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He said this created a "multi-generational financial and environmental liability", leaving our descendants with years of flood defence maintenance and the "insurmountable challenge of safe, millennia-long, highly radioactive nuclear waste isolation, amid a changing climate".
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
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
Like many countries, including the United States, Japan lacks a safe nuclear waste storage system.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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