radioactive
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The question of what to do with highly radioactive material accumulated in the 62 years since the country’s first reactor started operating remains unsolved.
From Washington Times
Which suggests just how much radioactive waste Wilkinson may have found.
From Washington Post
With the end of the atomic power era, Germany has to find a permanent repository for around 1,900 highly radioactive casks of nuclear waste by 2031.
From Reuters
The radioactive isotope forms continuously in the upper atmosphere as cosmic rays—high-energy particles from space—collide with gas molecules, spawning neutrons.
From Science Magazine
Nuclear power is considered a clean energy as it doesn’t emit greenhouse gases, but it does produce radioactive waste.
From Seattle Times
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