Radioactive waste

Quality:

Radioactive waste - waste containing radioactive material and emitting ionizing radiation. Article “Radioactive waste” in English Wikipedia has 92.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 165 references and 28 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9457^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8502^nd most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article “Radioactive waste” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Radioactive waste”, its content was written by 848 registered users of English Wikipedia (9457^th place) and edited by 2740 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8502^nd place).

The article is cited 1672 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7745 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1678 in April 2010
• Global: #1825 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3046 in March 2011
• Global: #1657 in March 2011

There are 44 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Radioactive waste		92.0751
2	Thai (th) กากกัมมันตรังสี		87.8733
3	Vietnamese (vi) Chất thải phóng xạ		87.7599
4	German (de) Radioaktiver Abfall		87.1429
5	Chinese (zh) 放射性废料		75.777
6	Croatian (hr) Radioaktivni otpad		62.4539
7	Turkish (tr) Radyoaktif atık		60.3637
8	Catalan (ca) Residu radioactiu		53.5712
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Radioaktivni otpad		51.8378
10	Dutch (nl) Radioactief afval		45.6386

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Radioactive waste		6 174 440
2	German (de) Radioaktiver Abfall		1 792 780
3	Japanese (ja) 放射性廃棄物		1 097 312
4	Spanish (es) Residuo radiactivo		1 020 253
5	French (fr) Déchet radioactif		940 743
6	Russian (ru) Радиоактивные отходы		840 833
7	Portuguese (pt) Resíduo radioativo		567 727
8	Italian (it) Rifiuto radioattivo		546 772
9	Chinese (zh) 放射性废料		441 101
10	Dutch (nl) Radioactief afval		310 829

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Radioactive waste		14 616
2	German (de) Radioaktiver Abfall		3 188
3	Russian (ru) Радиоактивные отходы		1 471
4	Chinese (zh) 放射性废料		1 307
5	French (fr) Déchet radioactif		1 281
6	Japanese (ja) 放射性廃棄物		1 182
7	Persian (fa) ضایعات هسته‌ای		1 094
8	Italian (it) Rifiuto radioattivo		925
9	Spanish (es) Residuo radiactivo		780
10	Polish (pl) Odpady promieniotwórcze		488

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Radioactive waste		848
2	German (de) Radioaktiver Abfall		375
3	French (fr) Déchet radioactif		303
4	Italian (it) Rifiuto radioattivo		127
5	Dutch (nl) Radioactief afval		117
6	Russian (ru) Радиоактивные отходы		116
7	Spanish (es) Residuo radiactivo		81
8	Japanese (ja) 放射性廃棄物		76
9	Portuguese (pt) Resíduo radioativo		59
10	Danish (da) Radioaktivt affald		49

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Déchet radioactif		3
2	English (en) Radioactive waste		2
3	Danish (da) Radioaktivt affald		1
4	Italian (it) Rifiuto radioattivo		1
5	Korean (ko) 방사성 폐기물		1
6	Arabic (ar) مخلفات إشعاعية		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Radioaktiv tullantılar		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Радиоактивни отпадъци		0
9	Catalan (ca) Residu radioactiu		0
10	Czech (cs) Radioaktivní odpad		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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