nuclear waste

noun

1. another name for radioactive waste

Example Sentences

Since the nuclear waste fund began in 1983, the DOE has taken in approximately $35.8 billion from utility customers.

From The Daily Beast

Millions of dollars and labor hours are being spent moving nuclear waste from bad tanks into good tanks.

From The Daily Beast

Another is that nuclear waste can not be willed out of existence as easily as it is created.

From The Daily Beast

Some of that material has been shipped to various nuclear-waste disposal sites in South Carolina, Nevada, and New Mexico.

From The Daily Beast

There was no mystique surrounding nuclear waste, just respect for the physical threat it posed.

From The Daily Beast

In February 1980, the Administration transmitted its nuclear waste management policy to the Congress.

From Project Gutenberg

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