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  • The McClure radioactive site was a radioactive site in Scarborough, Toronto. It was discovered in 1980 at a housing development built by the Ontario Housing...
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  • Hahn (October 30, 1976 – September 27, 2016), sometimes called the "Radioactive Boy Scout" and the "Nuclear Boy Scout" was an American nuclear radiation...
    20 KB (2,174 words) - 11:35, 7 May 2024
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    Radioactive contamination, also called radiological pollution, is the deposition of, or presence of radioactive substances on surfaces or within solids...
    35 KB (4,071 words) - 21:10, 2 May 2024
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    Goiânia accident (category Radioactive waste)
    hospital site in the city. It was subsequently handled by many people, resulting in four deaths. About 112,000 people were examined for radioactive contamination...
    41 KB (4,469 words) - 04:24, 20 May 2024
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    newer sources, was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium production site for nuclear weapons and...
    29 KB (3,003 words) - 17:17, 9 May 2024
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    center. The site was returned to public use in 1956, but Site A, and a nearby site formerly used for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste, Plot...
    7 KB (956 words) - 14:33, 31 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
    These are lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents. List of attacks on nuclear plants List of Chernobyl-related articles List of civilian...
    8 KB (628 words) - 04:51, 14 May 2024
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    acknowledged that 13,625 cubic meters of radioactive material conforming to its disposal criteria had been shipped to the site for disposal. Testing of the various...
    78 KB (6,734 words) - 13:31, 6 May 2024
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    remediation of radioactive material leaking from the site of the accident, but does little to protect the local area from radioactive isotopes that were...
    120 KB (11,797 words) - 06:32, 20 May 2024
  • A radioactive tracer, radiotracer, or radioactive label is a synthetic derivative of a natural compound in which one or more atoms have been replaced...
    19 KB (2,378 words) - 09:49, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nuclear fallout
    Nuclear fallout is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast, so called because it "falls out" of...
    81 KB (9,592 words) - 23:36, 16 May 2024
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    Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. Radioactive waste is a result of many activities, including nuclear...
    111 KB (12,767 words) - 11:38, 29 April 2024
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    Runit Island (category American nuclear test sites)
    of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The island is the site of a radioactive waste repository left by the United States after it conducted a...
    12 KB (972 words) - 08:36, 12 September 2023
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    amounts of radioactive materials into the air and the Columbia River, resulting in higher rates of cancer in the surrounding area. The Hanford Site became...
    137 KB (15,407 words) - 03:15, 25 April 2024
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    that have come in contact with radioactive waste such as packaging, clothing, and other similar materials found on site. The main difference between the...
    20 KB (1,964 words) - 19:05, 8 May 2024
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    campaigning since 1997 for the shutdown of the site, which they claim dumps "one million litres of liquid radioactive waste per day" into the ocean; "the equivalent...
    12 KB (1,266 words) - 20:56, 13 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for High-level radioactive waste management
    High-level radioactive waste management addresses the handling of radioactive materials generated from nuclear power production and nuclear weapons manufacture...
    73 KB (8,332 words) - 23:44, 18 May 2024
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    Mine) and Germany (potash mines in Herfa-Neurode and Zielitz). Radioactive waste storage sites are under construction with the Onkalo in Finland being the...
    33 KB (3,026 words) - 08:08, 8 May 2024
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    Low-level waste (LLW) or low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) is nuclear waste that does not fit into the categorical definitions for intermediate-level...
    8 KB (879 words) - 20:17, 14 May 2024
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    the containment of radioactive gases—the primary focus of most reactor containment buildings—and the confinement of solid radioactive waste, which is the...
    55 KB (5,494 words) - 20:23, 16 May 2024
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