Definition of Radioactive waste

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


Medical Definition of Radioactive waste

1. Equipment and materials from nuclear operations which are radioactive and for which there is no further anticipated use. Wastes are generally classified as high-level (having radioactivity concentrations of hundreds to thousands of curies per gallon or cubic foot), low-level (in the range of 1 microcurie per gallon or cubic foot), or intermediate (between high and low). See: curie. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Radioactive Waste

radioactive equilibrium
radioactive fallout
radioactive iodide uptake test
radioactive iodine
radioactive iodine excretion test
radioactive iodine test
radioactive iodine uptake test
radioactive isotope
radioactive material
radioactive pollutants
radioactive probe
radioactive thyroxine
radioactive tracer
radioactive tracers
radioactive waste (current term)
radioactive waste (current term)
radioactivities
radioactivity
radioactivity
radioactivity unit
radioallergosorbent test
radioautogram
radioautograph
radioautographs
radioautography
radioautography
radiobicipital
radiobicipital reflex
radiobiologic
radiobiological

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