Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. Radioactive waste is a result of many activities, including nuclear...

of nuclear/radioactive waste with an approximation of 200,000 tons sourcing mainly from the medical, research and nuclear industry. The waste materials...

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...

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...

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...

High-level radioactive waste management addresses the handling of radioactive materials generated from nuclear power production and nuclear weapons manufacture...

Bioremediation of radioactive waste or bioremediation of radionuclides is an application of bioremediation based on the use of biological agents bacteria...

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...

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...

the next 10,000 years about the storage locations and dangers of radioactive waste?" leading to the following answers: The linguist Thomas Sebeok was...

long-term storage. The spent fuel, though low in volume, is high-level radioactive waste. While its radioactivity decreases exponentially, it must be isolated...

Waste Examination Pilot Plant (SWEPP) is a facility at the Idaho National Laboratory for nondestructively examining containers of radioactive waste to...

called vitrification. An important application is the vitrification of radioactive waste to obtain a substance that is thought to be safer and more stable...

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...

Nuclear waste (see Radioactive waste) Organic waste Packaging waste Post-consumer waste Radioactive waste Low-level waste High-level waste Mixed waste...

Radioactive waste disposal may refer to: High-level radioactive waste management Low-level waste disposal Ocean disposal of radioactive waste Ocean floor...

such as carbon dioxide or methane. Radioactive waste treatment is the treatment and containment of radioactive waste. National Management Measures to Control...

containment of radioactive gases—the primary focus of most reactor containment buildings—and the confinement of solid radioactive waste, which is the primary...

Radioactive contamination, also called radiological pollution, is the deposition of, or presence of radioactive substances on surfaces or within solids...

transportation of nuclear fuel and also increasing the production of radioactive waste. SMRs require new designs with new technology, the safety of which...

considerations, including the specific type of radioactive waste, the containers enclosing the waste, other engineered barriers or seals around the containers...

batteries Radioactive wastes (some home smoke detectors are classified as radioactive waste because they contain very small amounts of radioactive isotope...

humans from inadvertently encountering radioactive waste stored at sites like the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. The task force suggested "oral...

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...

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...

Soviet Union used Karachay as a dumping site for radioactive waste from Mayak, the nearby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility, located near...

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...

Retrieved 17 July 2020. Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (July 2006). "Managing our Radioactive Waste Safely" (PDF). BBC News. Retrieved 20...

Central Organization for Radioactive Waste (COVRA), also in Borssele, is the national storage facility for all radioactive wastes. It is a surface facility...

considered as a possible mechanism for reducing the volume and hazard of radioactive waste. The term transmutation dates back to alchemy. Alchemists pursued...