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Radioactive waste

Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. It is a result of many activities, including nuclear medicine, nuclear research, nuclear power generation, nuclear decommissioning, rare-earth mining, and nuclear weapons reprocessing. The storage and disposal of radioactive waste is regulated by government agencies in…

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Radioactive waste

Nodes330
Edges329
Triples206
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.006061
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Radioactive waste

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related to External links · 29
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related to Illegal dumping · 20
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related to Accidents · 15
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related to Legacy waste · 15
Radioactive waste → Department, Despite, DOE, Due, Energy, Great Miami Aquifer, In, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Ohio, ORNL, Some, The DOE, The Fernald, The United States, United States
related to Low-level waste · 14
Radioactive waste → Cumbria, Dounreay, Example LLW, Greater Than Class, GTCC, LLW, Low-level, Materials, Most, Scotland, Some, Such LLW, To, UK
related to Management · 10
Radioactive waste → Governments, I-129, Np-237, Nuclear, Of, Pu-239, Several, Tc-99, The, This
related to Pharmacokinetics · 10
Radioactive waste → Because, Depending, DNA, Exposure, For, If, In, Ionizing, The, These
related to Classification · 9
Radioactive waste → Classification, HLW, ILW, LLW, Radioactive Waste Safety Standards, RADWASS, The, The IAEA, UK
related to High-level waste · 9
Radioactive waste → After, High-level, HLW, Meanwhile, Overall, Some, Spent, The, UK
related to Intermediate-level waste · 8
Radioactive waste → As, Europe, ILW, Intermediate-level, It, Regulations, UK, United States

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waste nuclear radioactive fuel uranium plutonium disposal spent years material radioactivity high-level decay reprocessing used elements united radiation states products

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Radioactive wasteis atype of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material0.90text
strontium-90instance ofmedium lived fission products0.80text
caesium-137instance ofmedium lived fission products0.80text
finally seven long-lived fission products with half-lives in the hundreds of thousands to millions of yearsinstance ofmedium lived fission products0.80text
a fetus is irradiatedinstance ofIf a developing organism0.80text
it is possible a birth defect may be inducedinstance ofIf a developing organism0.80text
but it is unlikely this defect will be in a gamete or a gamete-forming cellinstance ofIf a developing organism0.80text
anti-tank shellsinstance ofSome is used in applications where its extremely high density makes it valuable0.80text
and on at least one occasion even a sailboat keelinstance ofSome is used in applications where its extremely high density makes it valuable0.80text
californiuminstance ofand even sometimes some neutron emitters0.80text
Russiainstance ofwhile in other countries0.80text
the United Kingdominstance ofwhile in other countries0.80text

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