"Radioactive Waste" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Liquid, solid, or gaseous waste resulting from mining of radioactive ore, production of reactor fuel materials, reactor operation, processing of irradiated reactor fuels, and related operations, and from use of radioactive materials in research, industry, and medicine. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D011850
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D20.693.638 D20.944.380.638 D27.888.426.500.638 N06.850.460.710.380.638 N06.850.810.485
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| Concept/Terms |
Radioactive Waste- Radioactive Waste
- Radioactive Wastes
- Waste, Radioactive
- Wastes, Radioactive
- Nuclear Waste
- Nuclear Wastes
- Waste, Nuclear
- Wastes, Nuclear
- Hazardous Waste, Radioactive
- Hazardous Wastes, Radioactive
- Radioactive Hazardous Waste
- Radioactive Hazardous Wastes
- Waste, Radioactive Hazardous
- Wastes, Radioactive Hazardous
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