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high-level radioactive waste

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Noun1.high-level radioactive waste - radioactive waste that left in a nuclear reactor after the nuclear fuel has been consumed
radioactive waste - useless radioactive materials that are left after some laboratory or commercial process is completed
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And in a recently discovered area known as the "old dump" there are unknown substances, possibly including high-level radioactive waste and exotic explosives.
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The product of 20 years of study and $4 billion in research, the project is supposed to be the solution to the ongoing threat to public safety and national security resulting from the accumulation of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at various facilities throughout the country.
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Yucca Mountain in Nevada--the nation's top candidate for a high-level radioactive waste repository--is on the move.
Shifting ground at nuclear waste site by Monastersky, Richard / Science News
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