nuclear waste
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 country needs a permanent home for the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear waste, which currently sits in temporary storage amid ongoing safety concerns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Oklo has worked with Los Alamos National Laboratory to validate the reactor’s design, which recycles nuclear waste into energy, using surplus plutonium from the federal stockpile.
From Barron's ● May 26, 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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