Radioactive waste (11487 bytes)
2: ...f a nuclear process, such as [[nuclear fission]]. Waste can also be generated from the processing of fuel...
4: ...dioactivity. Eventually all waste decays into non-radioactive elements.
6: ...ay immediately to a stable state, but rather to a radioactive [[decay product]] leading to [[decay chain|decay ...
8: ... harmless. To achieve this for the more dangerous wastes, the preferred technology to date has been deep ...
10: == Types of radioactive waste ==

Radioactive decay (9803 bytes)
1: '''Radioactive decay''' is the set of various processes by which...
3: ...|150px|The ''trefoil'' symbol is used to indicate radioactive material. The [[Unicode]] encoding of this symbo...
5: ... of one Bq. Since any reasonably-sized sample of radioactive material contains very many atoms, a becquerel is...
28: In addition to the decay constant, radioactive decay is sometimes characterized by the [[mean li...
36: ...alf-life and the decay constant shows that highly radioactive substances are quickly spent, while those that ra...

Radioactive tracer (307 bytes)
1: ...Radioactive tracer''' is a substance containing a radioactive [[isotope]] ([[radioisotope]]).

Radioactive Man (2693 bytes)
1: '''Radioactive Man''', within the world of the [[animated]] [[te...
3: ... was said to be 73 years old in [[1995]]), played Radioactive Man and Buddy Hodges played Fallout Boy. Dirk Ric...
7: ...ast from local children. [[Bart Simpson]], a huge Radioactive Man fan, tried out for the part in the film, but ...
9: Radioactive Man has escaped from the fictional world of Bart ...
11: ...books, and the reader can follow the evolution of Radioactive Man from a [[1950s]] irradiated hero through the ...

Radioactive cloud (1420 bytes)
7: ...ud of heavier radiation. One of the problems with radioactive clouds is their ability to shift with wind patter...

Radioactive contamination (6466 bytes)
2: ...>uncontrolled</i> distribution of [[radioactivity|radioactive material]] in a given environment.
4: ...ormation, where an atom of a given element will [[radioactive decay|transform]] into a different element, emitt...
6: ...tions. [[Nuclear fallout]] is the distribution of radioactive contamination by a [[nuclear explosion]].
8: ...re, radioactive material in sealed and designated waste containers is not properly referred to as contami...
12: Radioactive contamination may exist on surfaces or in volumes...

Radioactive decay path (646 bytes)
1: ... of transformation, called [[transmutation]], a [[radioactive]] substance takes as it emits paticles from its a...
3: Some radioactive substances have mroe than one decay path.

Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters (496 bytes)
1: '''Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters''', written by [[Don Chin]], ...

E-waste (3709 bytes)
1: ...caused by [[electronics]], which is often [[toxic waste]]. It is a major concern with respect to [[wirel...
3: == Types of e-waste ==
20: ==Problems caused by e-waste==
22: ...o the methods of processing the waste. Trade in e-waste is controlled by the [[Basel Convention]].
24: ...ology is another reason for the need to recycle e-waste.

Zero waste (572 bytes)
3: ...em to emulate natural cyclical processes where no waste exists. Every stage of any resource-use process m...
4: Zero Waste International Alliance, October 2004
6: Serbia start the project ZERO WASTE@SERBIA

WASTE (2615 bytes)
1: ...d by [[Justin Frankel]] at [[Nullsoft]] in 2003. WASTE is an [[acronym]] for "We Await Silent Tristero's
4: WASTE behaves similarly to a [[virtual private network]...
6: ...he ring (private and public keys are generated by WASTE from the random seeds of mouse movement). Once so...
8: The suggested size for a WASTE ring is 10-50 [[node (networking)|node]]s.
10: WASTE requires port 1337 to be open (by default).

Waste (2915 bytes)
1: ...out waste matter. For the computer program, see [[WASTE]].''
8: [[Image:Vuilnis.JPG|thumb|175px|Waste inside a [[Trash can]]]]
9: '''Waste''' is unwanted or undesired material left over af...
11: ...sed in the latter two states, gas especially, the wastes are referred to as [[emission]]s. It is usually ...
13: == Sources of waste ==

The Waste Land (5981 bytes)
1: '''''The Waste Land''''' is a 433-line [[poem]] by [[T. S. Eliot...
3: ...s of early [[modernism|modernist]] writing. ''The Waste Land'' is one of the most famous and most written...
5: The sections of ''The Waste Land'' are:
12: ...m]] has observed that "The major paradigm for The Waste Land is [[Walt Whitman|Walt Whitman's]] majestic ...
60: ...quested something longer to justify printing 'The Waste Land' in a separate book; and so many scholars th...

The Waste Lands (3132 bytes)
1: '''''The Waste Lands''''' is book III of the ''[[The Dark Tower ...
9: ...land's ka-tet speeding through the Waste Lands, a radioactive land of mutated animals and ancient ruins, on the...
27: [[Category:1991 books|Waste Lands, The]]
31: For the poem by [[T.S. Eliot]] see [[The Waste Land]].

Hazardous waste (939 bytes)
1: '''Hazardous waste''' is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to pu...
7: ...s]], and photo processing centers. Some hazardous waste generators are larger companies like chemical [[m...
9: See also: [[radioactive waste]], [[toxic waste]], [[remediation]].
12: ...us waste page: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/hazwaste.htm

Industrial waste (426 bytes)
3: ...] and [[chemical waste]] are a kind of industrial waste.
5: ...an be used to clean water tainted with industrial waste.
7: ''See also'': [[waste management]]
9: {{waste}}

Toxic waste (298 bytes)
1: '''Toxic waste''' is a [[waste]] which is [[toxic]]. It is usually caused by in...
6: ''See also'': [[waste management]]
8: {{waste}}
9: [[Category:Waste]]

Chemical waste (128 bytes)
3: '''Chemical waste''' is a [[waste]] which is [[chemical]] in nature.
5: ''See also'': [[waste management]]

Waste management (15778 bytes)
1: ... on the environment and recovering resources from waste materials.
3: ...xpertise exist for the management of each type of waste.
5: ...he generator. The management (and composition) of waste is usually quite different in developed and devel...
7: == Waste Management Concepts ==
9: The field of waste management has a number of different concepts, wh...

Mutoid Waste Company (1266 bytes)
1: The '''Mutoid Waste Company''' was founded by [[Joe Rush]] in the mid...

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