nuclear waste
Britishnoun
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She and her father previously founded Deep Isolation, which designs underground disposal of nuclear waste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
The U.S. has more commercial nuclear waste than any other country in the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 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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