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nuclear waste

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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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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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