low-level radioactive waste

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low-level radioactive waste - (medicine) radioactive waste consisting of objects that have been briefly exposed to radioactivity (as in certain medical tests)

medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques

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

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To the dismay of local activists, two federal agencies have started to consider new rules that could allow various types of low-level radioactive waste to be deposited in hazardous-waste or even municipal landfills rather than special dumps.

NUKE WASTE RULES MAY BE EASED CHANGE COULD AFFECT ROCKETDYNE CLEANUP by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

The desert site in the Ward Valley west of Needles would handle 125,000 cubic feet of low-level radioactive waste per year from California, Arizona, North Dakota and South Dakota.

Debate rages on over American Ecology nuclear dump site plan by Tobenkin, David / Los Angeles Business Journal

1 closure of the United States' three low-level radioactive waste landfills was headed off by eleventh-hour passage of a compromise bill in the House and Senate.

Radwaste crisis narrowly averted by Raloff, J. / Science News

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