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Liquid, solid, or gaseous waste resulting from mining of radioactive ore, production of reactor fuel materials, reactor operation, processing of irradiated reactor fuels, and related operations, and from use of radioactive materials in research, industry, and medicine. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)
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- Hazardous Waste, Radioactive
- Nuclear Waste
- Hazardous Wastes, Radioactive
- Nuclear Wastes
- Radioactive Hazardous Waste
- Radioactive Hazardous Wastes
- Radioactive Wastes
- Waste, Nuclear
- Waste, Radioactive
- Waste, Radioactive Hazardous
- Wastes, Nuclear
- Wastes, Radioactive
- Wastes, Radioactive Hazardous
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Indexed with the subheadings adverse effects, analysis, classification, economics, ethics, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, statistics & numerical data.
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specify geog if pertinent
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History Note
NUCLEAR WASTE was see HAZARDOUS WASTE 1988-89
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Radioactive Waste. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011850. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011850
- Radioactive Waste. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste
- Radioactive Waste. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185252