Acute care is a level of health care in. which a patient is treated for a brief but. severe episode of illness,for conditions. that are the result of disease or trauma, and during recovery from surgery. Acute. care is generally provided in a hospital. by a variety of clinical personnel using.
Under the lean manufacturing system, seven wastes are identified: overproduction, inventory, motion, defects, over-processing, waiting, and transport. Overproduction. The most serious of the wastes, overproduction can cause all other types of wastes and results in excess inventory.
1 Waste incidental to reprocessing (WIR) refers to certain waste byproducts that result from reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, which the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has distinguished from high-level waste (described below).2  High-level waste (HLW) is irradiated or used nuclear reactor fuel.ind the locations of low-level waste disposal facilities, high-level waste disposal facilities, and disposal facilities for waste incidental to reprocessing.