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    Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. Radioactive waste is a result of many activities, including nuclear...
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  • of nuclear/radioactive waste with an approximation of 200,000 tons sourcing mainly from the medical, research and nuclear industry. The waste materials...
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    and surface runoff), radioactive waste, and others. What constitutes waste depends on the eye of the beholder; one person's waste can be a resource for...
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    Bioremediation of radioactive waste or bioremediation of radionuclides is an application of bioremediation based on the use of biological agents bacteria...
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  • mixed waste (MW) is a waste type defined as follows; "MW contains both hazardous waste (as defined by RCRA and its amendments) and radioactive waste (as...
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    within Yucca Mountain for spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive waste in the United States. The site is on federal land adjacent to the...
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    High-level radioactive waste management addresses the handling of radioactive materials generated from nuclear power production and nuclear weapons manufacture...
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    Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, in New Mexico, US, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste...
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  • Low-level waste (LLW) or low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) is a category of nuclear waste. The definition of low-level waste is set by the nuclear regulators...
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    the next 10,000 years about the storage locations and dangers of radioactive waste?" leading to the following answers: The linguist Thomas Sebeok was...
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  • Waste Examination Pilot Plant (SWEPP) is a facility at the Idaho National Laboratory for nondestructively examining containers of radioactive waste to...
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    Nuclear power (section Waste)
    long-term storage. The spent fuel, though low in volume, is high-level radioactive waste. While its radioactivity decreases exponentially, it must be isolated...
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  • called vitrification. An important application is the vitrification of radioactive waste to obtain a substance that is thought to be safer and more stable...
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    utilized. Radioactive waste Low-level waste Transuranic waste Mixed waste Into Eternity (film) M.I. Ojovan and W.E. Lee. An Introduction to Nuclear Waste Immobilisation...
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  • such as carbon dioxide or methane. Radioactive waste treatment is the treatment and containment of radioactive waste. National Management Measures to Control...
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    Nuclear waste (see Radioactive waste) Organic waste Packaging waste Post-consumer waste Radioactive waste Low-level waste High-level waste Mixed waste...
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    containment of radioactive gases—the primary focus of most reactor containment buildings—and the confinement of solid radioactive waste, which is the primary...
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    transportation of nuclear fuel and also increasing the production of radioactive waste. SMRs require new designs with new technology, the safety of which...
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    considerations, including the specific type of radioactive waste, the containers enclosing the waste, other engineered barriers or seals around the containers...
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    Radioactive contamination, also called radiological pollution, is the deposition of, or presence of radioactive substances on surfaces or within solids...
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  • Radioactive waste disposal may refer to: High-level radioactive waste management Low-level waste disposal Ocean disposal of radioactive waste Ocean floor...
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    batteries Radioactive wastes (some home smoke detectors are classified as radioactive waste because they contain very small amounts of radioactive isotope...
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  • Retrieved 17 July 2020. Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (July 2006). "Managing our Radioactive Waste Safely" (PDF). BBC News. Retrieved 20...
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    humans from inadvertently encountering radioactive waste stored at sites like the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. The task force suggested "oral...
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    Chelyabinsk. Radioactive waste can be described as high-level waste or low-level waste. High-level waste is what can be seen as the waste from the use...
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    Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The island is the site of a radioactive waste repository left by the United States after it conducted a series of...
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    Lake Karachay (category Radioactively contaminated areas)
    Soviet Union used Karachay as a dumping site for radioactive waste from Mayak, the nearby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility, located near...
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    or radioactive waste within a stable geologic environment, typically 200–1,000 m below the surface of the earth. It entails a combination of waste form...
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    considered as a possible mechanism for reducing the volume and hazard of radioactive waste. The term transmutation dates back to alchemy. Alchemists pursued...
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    the never-built nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Wackersdorf. The radioactive waste was intended to be stored in a deep geological repository as part...
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