radioactive waste
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Usage
Inflected Forms
radioactive wastes (plural)