| 单词 | radioactive waste |
| 释义 | radioactive wasteSEE SYNONYMS FOR radioactive waste ON THESAURUS.COM nounthe radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel. Also called nuclear waste. Origin of radioactive wasteFirst recorded in 1945–50 Words nearby radioactive wasteradioactive decay, radioactive iodine, radioactive isotope, radioactive series, radioactive tracer, radioactive waste, radioactivity, radioallergosorbent test, radio astronomy, radioautograph, radioautography Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for radioactive wasteradioactive waste nounany waste material containing radionuclidesAlso called: nuclear waste Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for radioactive wasteradioactive waste Radioactive materials that may be left after a commercial or laboratory process has been carried out. Some is “low-level” waste, such as objects that have touched the radioactive tracers used in certain medical tests. Other waste may be “high-level,” such as the material left in a nuclear reactor after the fuel has been consumed. notes for radioactive wasteThere has been public debate over the safest means of storing the waste, which can remain dangerously radioactive for up to hundreds of thousands of years. Present practice calls for encasing the waste in metal, concrete, and ceramic containers and burying the containers deep underground in geologically stable locations. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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