- (a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.
(b) “High-level nuclear waste” means:
- (1) Spent nuclear reactor fuel;
- (2) Liquid waste that results from the operation, in a facility for reprocessing spent nuclear reactor fuel, of a first cycle solvent extraction system or an equivalent system;
- (3) Concentrated waste from the operation, in a facility for reprocessing spent nuclear reactor fuel, of a subsequent cycle solvent extraction system or an equivalent system; or
- (4) Any solid into which any waste that is described in item (2) or (3) of this subsection has been converted.
(c) “Low-level nuclear waste” means waste that:
- (1) Contains or is contaminated with radioactive material emitting primarily beta or gamma radiation; and
- (2) Is neither high-level nuclear waste nor transuranic waste.
- (d) “Transuranic waste” means waste material that is measured or assumed to contain at least 10 nanocuries of transuranic activity per gram of waste.
Added by Acts 1982, c. 240, § 2.
Formerly Art. 43, § 689E.