low-level radioactive waste

Definitions of low-level radioactive waste
  1. noun
    (medicine) radioactive waste consisting of objects that have been briefly exposed to radioactivity (as in certain medical tests)
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    type of:
    radioactive waste
    useless radioactive materials that are left after some laboratory or commercial process is completed
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