# Environment (GEN)

## Title 8. Radiation

### Subtitle 4. Low-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal

#### Section 8-401

(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.

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Md. Code Ann., Envir. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)