radioactive waste

English

Noun

radioactive waste (countable and uncountable, plural radioactive wastes)

1. Waste containing radioactive nuclides.
   • December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Dealing with all the radioactive waste left on site is a slow-motion race against time, which will last so long that even the grandchildren of those working on site will not see its end. The process will cost at least £121bn.

   • 2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 20:

     For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the processing of lower grades of radioactive waste for off-site storage.

Translations

type of waste

• Armenian: ճառագայթաակտիվ թափոններ pl (čaṙagaytʿaaktiv tʿapʿonner)
• Belarusian: радыёакты́ўныя адхо́ды m pl (radyjoaktýŭnyja adxódy)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: residu radioactiu m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放射性廢料／放射性废料 (fàngshèxìng fèiliào)

• Czech: radioaktivní odpad n
• Danish: atomaffald (da), radioaktivt affald (da)
• Dutch: radioactief afval n
• Finnish: ydinjäte (fi), radioaktiivinen jäte
• French: déchet radioactif (fr) m
• German: radioaktiver Abfall m
• Greek: ραδιενεργά απόβλητα n pl (radienergá apóvlita)
• Hebrew: פסולת רדיואקטיבית f (psólet radioaktívit)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: radioaktív hulladék
• Indonesian: limbah radioaktif
• Irish: fuíoll núicléach m
• Italian: scoria radioattiva f
• Japanese: 放射性廃棄物 (ほうしゃせいはいきぶつ, hōshasei haikibutsu)
• Kazakh: радиоактивті қалдық (radioaktivtı qaldyq)
• Korean: 방사성 폐기물 (bangsaseong pyegimul)
• Mongolian: цацраг идэвхт хаягдал (cacrag idevxt xajagdal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: atomavfall n (nuclear waste)

  Nynorsk: atomavfall n (nuclear waste)

• Polish: odpady promieniotwórcze m pl
• Portuguese: lixo nuclear m
• Romanian: deșeuri radioactive n pl
• Russian: радиоакти́вные отхо́ды m pl (radioaktívnyje otxódy)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgudal rèidio-beò m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: радиоактивни отпад m

  Roman: radioaktivni otpad m

• Slovak: rádioaktívny odpad m
• Slovene: radioaktívni odpádki m pl
• Spanish: residuo radiactivo m
• Swedish: radioaktivt avfall n, (from nuclear power) kärnkraftsavfall n
• Turkish: radyoaktif atık
• Ukrainian: радіоакти́вні відхо́ди m pl (radioaktývni vidxódy)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: chất thải phóng xạ
• Welsh: gwastraff niwclear m

Further reading

• radioactive waste on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “radioactive waste”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.