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2. Radioactive waste - Wikipedia

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   Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. It is a result of many activities, including nuclear medicine, nuclear research, nuclear power generation, nuclear decommissioning, rare-earth mining, and nuclear weapons reprocessing. [1]

3. Long-term nuclear waste warning messages - Wikipedia

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   Proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Long-term nuclear waste warning messages are communication attempts intended to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future, within or above the order of magnitude of 10,000 years. Nuclear semiotics is an ...

4. Radioactive contamination - Wikipedia

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   Radioactive contamination, also called radiological pollution, is the deposition of, or presence of radioactive substances on surfaces or within solids, liquids, or gases (including the human body), where their presence is unintended or undesirable (from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) definition).

5. Sites with radioactive material more vulnerable as climate ...

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   Many sites are contaminated or warehouse decades of radioactive waste, while some perform critical energy and defense research and manufacturing that could be crippled by increasingly ...

6. ‘Unacceptable Levels’ of Radioactive Waste Are Polluting a ...

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   A new report shows highly elevated levels of nuclear waste contaminates from the Manhattan Project inside Jana Elementary School. ‘Unacceptable Levels’ of Radioactive Waste Are Polluting a ...

7. It's not just toxic chemicals. Radioactive waste was also ...

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   In a 1999 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency titled "Inventory of radioactive waste disposals at sea," a grainy map shows that at least 56,261 containers of radioactive waste were ...

8. Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents - Wikipedia

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   29 September 1957: Kyshtym disaster: Nuclear waste storage tank explosion at the same Mayak plant, Russia. No immediate fatalities, though up to 200+ additional cancer deaths might have ensued from the radioactive contamination of the surrounding area; 270,000 people were exposed to dangerous radiation levels.

9. WA, feds upend plan to clean up one of nation’s most costly ...

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   The high-level tank waste is among the nation’s most dangerous nuclear waste and poses a risk to the nearby Columbia River. ... The less radioactive waste will go into a lined landfill and the ...