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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="8-401" title_number="8" title_name="Radiation" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Low-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“High-level nuclear waste” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Spent nuclear reactor fuel;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>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;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>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</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Any solid into which any waste that is described in item (2) or (3) of this subsection has been converted.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Low-level nuclear waste” means waste that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Contains or is contaminated with radioactive material emitting primarily beta or gamma radiation; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Is neither high-level nuclear waste nor transuranic waste.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Transuranic waste” means waste material that is measured or assumed to contain at least 10 nanocuries of transuranic activity per gram of waste.</text>
  </level>
</section>
