RADIOACTIVE WASTE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Useless radioactive materials that are left after some laboratory or commercial process is completed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("radioactive waste" is a kind of...):

radioactive material (material that is radioactive)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "radioactive waste"):

high-level radioactive waste (radioactive waste that left in a nuclear reactor after the nuclear fuel has been consumed)

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

Credits