radioactive
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The highly radioactive material is held at several secure sites across the country, including at LANL.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
The director-general of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, has warned repeatedly about the risk of a radioactive incident at such plants.
From Salon • May 21, 2026
“The dangers are so much different. Instead of an explosion, it just turns off. There’s no radioactive waste. So this light touch is exactly what the Congress overwhelmingly … wanted the NRC to do.”
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
According to the team, the results strongly point to the Local Interstellar Cloud as the source of the radioactive material.
From Science Daily • May 14, 2026
Although a decontamination process could remove some of the radioactive isotopes from the water, it couldn’t clean all of it, so most of the wastewater was stored in tanks.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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