through exposure to neutron radiation. This waste typically consists of contaminated protective shoe covers and clothing, wiping rags, mops, filters, reactor water treatment residues, equipments and tools, luminous dials, medical tubes, swabs, injection needles, syringes, and laboratory animal carcasses and tissues.

LLW in the United Kingdom

In the UK, LLW is defined as waste with specific activities below 12 gigabecquerel/tonne (GBq/t) beta/gamma and below 4 GBq/t alpha emitting nuclides.

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