highly radioactive waste

But the highly radioactive waste would be harder to handle - and steal.

The agreement's "black list" of prohibited materials already includes highly radioactive wastes.

The residual plutonium is apparently being held in the form of highly radioactive waste.

The fact that no final storage place exists for highly radioactive waste is considered to be but a secondary problem.

It was highly radioactive waste water leaking from the reactor pressure container.

I also welcome recourse in the last resort to the transport of highly radioactive waste.

The last return transport of highly radioactive waste, mainly fission products, took place in 2007.

Highly radioactive wastes are the main orphan of the nuclear era, having found no permanent home over the decades.

It is also important, of course, that we make safety checks on highly radioactive waste. Euratom could play a significant role in this.

The London treaty already explicitly forbids dumping of highly radioactive waste.

Then the plutonium was painstakingly separated from highly radioactive wastes, for use in bombs.

But most highly radioactive waste is generated in the Eastern United States.

The move would be an extension of the ban on ocean dumping of highly radioactive waste.

Our Parliament would lose a great deal of credibility if it were to make obscurantism the rule where highly radioactive waste is concerned.

The waste tank at the Hanford nuclear reservation, has been known for years to be leaking highly radioactive wastes.

It had always been thought that virtually all nations that generate highly radioactive waste planned similar methods of disposal.

But a highly radioactive waste product, cesium, is dissolved in the liquid in the tanks.

No problems of disposing of highly radioactive wastes.

During this time period, 600,000 gallons of highly radioactive waste accumulated in an underground waste tank.

And like today's reactors, these plants would continue to produce long-lived, highly radioactive waste, for which there is no known, safe method of permanent storage.

Dirt from the reservation may be as dangerous as highly radioactive wastes stored in special tanks, the agency said.

Another is to immobilize the material in glass or a ceramic substance, possibly also mingled with highly radioactive wastes.

The dump, for the nation's most highly radioactive wastes, is under study by the United States Department of Energy.

For example, your article mentions vitrification, which processes highly radioactive waste into a glass form for easier disposal.

The reprocessing plant draws particular ire from environmental campaigners because it produces its own highly radioactive waste.