radioactive waste

Noun

radioactive waste (countable and uncountable, plural radioactive wastes)

1. Waste containing radioactive nuclides.
   • Dealing with all the radioactive waste left on site is a slow-motion race against time, which will last so long that even the grandchildren of those working on site will not see its end. The process will cost at least £121bn.December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian
   • For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the...2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 20