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Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Radiologic Health > Radioactive Waste
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Radiologic Health > Radioactive Waste
Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Radiologic Health > Radioactive Waste
Complex Mixtures > Radioactive Pollutants > Radioactive Waste
Chemical Actions and Uses > Toxic Actions > Hazardous Substances > Hazardous Waste > Radioactive Waste
Complex Mixtures > Waste Products > Hazardous Waste > Radioactive Waste
... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Environmental Pollution > Waste Products > Hazardous Waste > Radioactive Waste
... > Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Environmental Pollution > Waste Products > Hazardous Waste > Radioactive Waste
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Environmental Pollution > Waste Products > Hazardous Waste > Radioactive Waste

Preferred term

Radioactive Waste  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Hazardous Waste, Radioactive
  • Hazardous Wastes, Radioactive
  • Nuclear Waste
  • Nuclear Wastes
  • Radioactive Hazardous Waste
  • Radioactive Hazardous Wastes
  • Waste, Nuclear
  • Waste, Radioactive Hazardous
  • Wastes, Nuclear
  • Wastes, Radioactive Hazardous

Note

  • specify geog if pertinent

Scope note

  • 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)

History note

  • NUCLEAR WASTE was see HAZARDOUS WASTE 1988-89

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011850

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