Log in or Sign up
  1. transuranic love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having an atomic number greater than 92.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. chemistry lying beyond uranium in the periodic table; having an atomic number greater than 92

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having an atomic number greater than 92

Etymologies

  1. trans- + uran(ium) + -ic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “It includes low-level waste and debris that is classified as transuranic waste because it is contaminated with plutonium.”

    The Seattle Times

  • “Department of Energy held a briefing in Greene County about the "transuranic" radioactive waste shipments that will start in July”

    CBS3.com - Philadelphia's Source For Breaking News, Weather, Traffic and Sports

  • “Overall, there are roughly 400,000 cubic feet of plutonium-contaminated [ "transuranic"] waste housed at the facility, much of it generated by LANL's own nuclear weapons activities.”

    Indybay newswire

  • “Lab Director Charles McMillan said the barrels contain transuranic waste — gloves, toolboxes, tools — and other items that may have been contaminated through contact with radioactive materials.”

    USA Today: Towns near N.M. fire, nuclear lab wary of smoke

  • “By comparison, there is an alternative called "Thorium", which produces much smaller quantities of transuranic elements, and these are readily separated in the liquid reactors being proposed.”

    The Huffington Post: Linda Bergthold: Fukushima Nuclear Reactors in Japan: A Report From Tokyo

  • “This incident has nothing to do with the leaking tanks of transuranic waste involved in the Hanford Site cleanup, other than being located within 50 miles of the place.”

    WhooPPSS! (Jack Bog's Blog)

  • “Originally designated a second generation sun, with elements up to the transuranic, Arrutan patently did not conform to that classification.”

    Fictionaut: Cattle Town

  • “Used fuel is about 95% uranium-238 but it also contains up to 1% uranium-235 that has not fissioned, about 1% plutonium and 3% fission products, which are highly radioactive, with other transuranic elements formed in the reactor.”

    Nuclear fuel cycle

  • “The radiotoxicity of these wastes would be relatively short-lived compared with the actinides (long-lived alpha-emitting transuranic isotopes) from a fission reactor.”

    Nuclear fusion power

  • “However, although fusion generates no radioactive fission products or transuranic elements, and the unburned gases can be treated on site, there would a short-term radioactive waste problem due to activation products.”

    Nuclear fusion power

Show 10 more examples...

Log in or sign up to add your own related words.

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. topaline
  2. high-rate
  3. checkable
  4. bef
  1. element.graph
  2. gold-bearing
  3. Uranian
  4. rust-coloured
  1. byzanium
  2. uridium
  3. pond'rous
  4. good-faith
  1. crost
  2. unwrought
  3. unworked
  4. fissionable
  1. alien-looking
  2. donors'
  3. lacustrine
  4. transactinide

reverse dictionary (93)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. fermium
  2. Es
  3. Lr
  4. curium
  5. kurchatovium
  6. lawrencium
  7. berkelium
  8. americium
  9. mendelevium
  10. nobelium
  11. Fm
  12. unnilquadium
  13. Unq
  14. ununbium
  15. ununhexium
  16. ununpentium
  17. ununquadium
  18. ununtrium
  1. Uub
  2. uuh
  3. uup
  4. uuq
  5. uut
  6. einsteinium
  7. plutonium
  8. Pu
  9. Rg
  10. roentgenium
  11. rutherfordium
  12. seaborgium
  13. Sg
  14. darmstadtium
  15. db
  16. Ds
  17. dubnium
  18. element 104
  1. element 105
  2. element 106
  3. element 107
  4. element 108
  5. element 109
  6. element 110
  7. element 111
  8. element 112
  9. element 113
  10. element 114
  11. element 115
  12. element 116
  13. fm
  14. hahnium
  15. hassium
  16. Hs
  17. lr
  18. Md
  1. meitnerium
  2. mt
  3. mv
  4. neptunium
  5. no
  6. Np
  7. Rf.
  8. am
  9. atomic number 100
  10. atomic number 101
  11. atomic number 102
  12. atomic number 103
  13. atomic number 104
  14. atomic number 105
  15. atomic number 106
  16. atomic number 107
  17. atomic number 108
  18. atomic number 109
  1. atomic number 110
  2. atomic number 111
  3. atomic number 112
  4. atomic number 113
  5. atomic number 114
  6. atomic number 115
  7. atomic number 116
  8. atomic number 93
  9. atomic number 94
  10. atomic number 95
  11. atomic number 96
  12. atomic number 97
  13. atomic number 98
  14. atomic number 99
  15. bh
  16. Bk
  17. bohrium
  18. californium
  1. cf
  2. cm
  3. e

tags (2)

Free-form, user-generated categorization

  1. trans-
  1. ccvccvcvcvc

Log in or sign up to add your own tag.

Wordmap

(beta)

Word visualization

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘transuranic’.

Comments

No comments yet...

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

Tweets

Looking for tweets for transuranic.

‘transuranic’ has been looked up 693 times, added to 8 lists, and has a Scrabble score of 13.