Any waste that emits energy as rays, waves, or streams of energetic particles. Radioactive materials are often mixed with hazardous waste, usually from nuclear reactors, research institutions, or hospitals.
Materials left over from making nuclear energy. Radioactive waste can harm people and the environment if it is not stored safely.
All wastes from the nuclear fuel cycle, including mining, refining, fuel fabrication and from the nuclear-powered generating stations.
Substances, usually produced by the nuclear fuel cycle, that radiate waves and/or particles, but cannot be used in the nuclear fuel cycle. The most highly contaminated waste from the nuclear fuel cycle most of the fission products from irradiated fuel, plus small amounts of unseparated uranium and plutonium, plus the greater proportion of the actinides produced in the reactor. Such waste usually contains millions of curies per cubic metre.
Solid, liquid, or gaseous materials containing radionuclides regulated under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
useless radioactive materials that are left after some laboratory or commercial process is completed
Conventional materials that have been contaminated with radiation. In the United States, radioactive wastes are not classified as hazardous, but are controlled by various specific government regulations.
A solid, liquid or gaseous material of negligible economic value that contains radio nuclides in excess of threshold quantities except for radioactive material form post-weapons-test activities.
Solid, liquid and gaseous materials from nuclear operations that are radioactive, become radioactive and/or for which there is no further use. Wastes are generally classified as high level, intermediate level and low level.
Solid, liquid or gaseous material that contains radionuclides regulated under the Atomic Energy Act, as amended, and is of negligible economic value considering the cost of recovery.
Any waste containing radionuclides.
Waste that is managed for its radioactive content; solid, liquid, or gaseous material that contains radionuclides regulated under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended and of negligible economic value considering costs of recovery.
Material that contains or is contaminated with radionuclides at concentrations or activities greater than clearance levels as established by the regulatory body, and for which no use is foreseen.
Waste products of nuclear power plants, research, medicine, weapon production, or other processes involving nuclear reactions. See radioactivity.
is radioactive material which has been brought under the control of the Radiation Safety Office and entered into the Radioactive Waste Management System. Even though RAM is referred to as waste in chapter 11, Ram is not considered waste under the RCSP until it has been analyzed and classified by the Radiation Safety Office and entered into the Waste Management System.
the byproduct of nuclear reactions that gives off (usually harmful) radiation.
Useless material containing radionuclides. Frequently categorised in the nuclear power industry according to activity (and other criteria) as low level, intermediate level, and high level waste.
Water or any other materials including spent nuclear reactor fuel, work clothes, or tools that contain radioisotopes.
Materials left over from making nuclear energy. Radioactive waste can living organisms if it is not stored safely.
Radioactive waste are waste types containing radioactive chemical elements that do not have a practical purpose. It is sometimes the product of a nuclear process, such as nuclear fission. The majority of radioactive waste is "low-level waste", meaning it has low levels of radioactivity per mass or volume.