radioactive
Example Sentences
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Their friends very often don't want to be seen around them because they're so toxic and radioactive at work.
From Salon
Users expressed concern about how radioactive waste will be handled, noting that waste remains dangerous for thousands of years and creates challenges in disposal.
From Science Daily
Months after discovering that radioactive waste and toxic pesticides may be buried under two popular Bay Area parks, state regulators have rejected Berkeley’s plan to test for contaminants as insufficient.
From Los Angeles Times
As the bivalves feed on organic matter and filter the water around them, their inner tissues and hard shells begin to reflect whatever is in their environment -- including radioactive particles.
From Science Daily
That’s not counting the additional load of low-level and intermediately radioactive waste the plants produce.
From Salon
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