Radioactive waste

Quality:

Radioactive waste - waste containing radioactive material and emitting ionizing radiation. Article “Radioactive waste” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8470^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Radioactive waste”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2790 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8470^th place).

The article is cited 41 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8070 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #300 in July 2014
• Global: #1825 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9385 in April 2016
• Global: #1605 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, 2026 (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		87.9515
2	Vietnamese (vi) Chất thải phóng xạ		87.4031
3	German (de) Radioaktiver Abfall		86.6667
4	Thai (th) กากกัมมันตรังสี		86.5229
5	Chinese (zh) 放射性废料		75.6393
6	Croatian (hr) Radioaktivni otpad		62.3654
7	Indonesian (id) Limbah radioaktif		61.0525
8	Turkish (tr) Radyoaktif atık		60.5635
9	Catalan (ca) Residu radioactiu		53.7093
10	Dutch (nl) Radioactief afval		52.8212

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Radioactive waste		6 426 766
2	German (de) Radioaktiver Abfall		1 830 196
3	Japanese (ja) 放射性廃棄物		1 113 245
4	Spanish (es) Residuo radiactivo		1 028 099
5	French (fr) Déchet radioactif		957 610
6	Russian (ru) Радиоактивные отходы		941 468
7	Portuguese (pt) Resíduo radioativo		572 859
8	Italian (it) Rifiuto radioattivo		555 191
9	Chinese (zh) 放射性废料		458 500
10	Dutch (nl) Radioactief afval		314 943

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		7 481
2	German (de) Radioaktiver Abfall		2 224
3	French (fr) Déchet radioactif		966
4	Japanese (ja) 放射性廃棄物		899
5	Russian (ru) Радиоактивные отходы		882
6	Italian (it) Rifiuto radioattivo		765
7	Chinese (zh) 放射性废料		697
8	Persian (fa) ضایعات هسته‌ای		572
9	Spanish (es) Residuo radiactivo		379
10	Polish (pl) Odpady promieniotwórcze		315

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		860
2	German (de) Radioaktiver Abfall		382
3	French (fr) Déchet radioactif		303
4	Italian (it) Rifiuto radioattivo		129
5	Dutch (nl) Radioactief afval		119
6	Russian (ru) Радиоактивные отходы		117
7	Spanish (es) Residuo radiactivo		81
8	Japanese (ja) 放射性廃棄物		77
9	Portuguese (pt) Resíduo radioativo		62
10	Danish (da) Radioaktivt affald		52

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	German (de) Radioaktiver Abfall		3
2	Indonesian (id) Limbah radioaktif		2
3	Japanese (ja) 放射性廃棄物		2
4	Croatian (hr) Radioaktivni otpad		1
5	Ukrainian (uk) Радіоактивні відходи		1
6	Vietnamese (vi) Chất thải phóng xạ		1
7	Arabic (ar) مخلفات إشعاعية		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Radioaktiv tullantılar		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Радиоактивни отпадъци		0
10	Catalan (ca) Residu radioactiu		0

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

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