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radioactive waste

DEFINITIONS OF: radioactive waste

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n useless radioactive materials that are left after some laboratory or commercial process is completed

Types:
high-level radioactive waste
radioactive waste that left in a nuclear reactor after the nuclear fuel has been consumed
low-level radioactive waste
(medicine) radioactive waste consisting of objects that have been briefly exposed to radioactivity (as in certain medical tests)
Type of:
radioactive material
material that is radioactive
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