30-651. Definitions


In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:


1. "Agency" means the radiation regulatory agency.


2. "Atomic energy" means all forms of energy released in the course of nuclear
transformations, nuclear fission and nuclear fusion.


3. "Board" means the radiation regulatory hearing board.


4. "By-product material" means any radioactive material, except special nuclear
material, yielded in or made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incident to the
process of producing or utilizing special nuclear material and the tailings or wastes
produced by the extraction or concentration of uranium ore thorium from any ore processed
primarily for its source material content.


5. "Diagnostic mammography" means an X-ray imaging of the breast performed on
persons who have symptoms or physical signs indicative of breast disease.


6. "Director" means the director of the radiation regulatory agency.


7. "Electronic product" means:


(a) Any machine or device designed to produce a beam of ionizing radiation as the
result of the operation of an electronic circuit or component.


(b) Class IIIb and IV lasers, as classified by the United States food and drug
administration.


(c) Radio frequency heaters, dryers and sealers.


(d) Any device employing a source of radio frequency electromagnetic radiation
within a protective enclosure and used for heating or curing materials in industrial or
manufacturing applications and in restaurants or food vending establishments. This
subdivision does not include microwave ovens manufactured as consumer products and used
for home food preparation.


(e) Microwave and shortwave diathermy.


(f) Mercury vapor, metal halide and high-pressure sodium lamps used for commercial
lighting and industrial manufacturing processes or sunlamps used in commercial
establishments for the intentional irradiation of humans.


(g) Therapeutic ultrasound devices.


(h) Industrial ultrasonic welders and sealers.


8. "Electronic product radiation" means:


(a) Any ionizing or nonionizing electromagnetic or particulate radiation which is
emitted from an electronic product.


(b) Any sonic, infrasonic or ultrasonic wave which is emitted from an electronic
product as the result of the operation of an electronic circuit in the product.


9. "Ionizing radiation" means gamma rays and X-rays, alpha and beta particles, high
speed electrons, neutrons, protons and other nuclear particles or rays.


10. "Operation" means adjustments or procedures by the user required for the
equipment to perform its intended functions.


11. "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association,
trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency or political subdivision of
this state, or any other state or political subdivision or agency of such state, and any
legal successor, representative, agent, or agency of the foregoing, other than the United
States nuclear regulatory commission or any successor, and other than federal government
agencies and any other entities licensed by the United States nuclear regulatory
commission or any successor.


12. "Radiation" means:


(a) Ionizing radiation including gamma rays, X-rays, alpha and beta particles, high
speed electrons, neutrons, protons and other nuclear particles or rays.


(b) Any electromagnetic radiation which may be produced by the operation of an
electronic product.


(c) Any sonic, ultrasonic or infrasonic wave which may be produced by the operation
of an electronic product.


13. "Radiation machine" means any manufactured devices or products producing any of
the following:


(a) X-rays for medical, industrial, research and development or educational
purposes.


(b) Electromagnetic radiation from an electronic product.


(c) Laser devices classified as class IIIb or IV by the United States food and drug
administration.


(d) Diathermy machines.


14. "Radioactive material" means any material or materials, solid, liquid or
gaseous, that emit radiation spontaneously.


15. "Screening mammography" means X-ray imaging of the breast of asymptomatic
persons.


16. "Service" means major adjustments or repairs, usually requiring specialized
training or tools, or both.


17. "Source material" means:


(a) Uranium, thorium or any other material which the governor declares by order to
be source material after the United States nuclear regulatory commission or any successor
has determined the material to be source material.


(b) Ores containing one or more of the materials, as provided in subdivision (a) of
this paragraph, in such concentration as the governor declares by order to be source
material after the United States nuclear regulatory commission or any successor has
determined the material in such concentration to be source material.


18. "Sources of radiation" means radioactive materials, radiation machines and
electronic products.


19. "Special nuclear material" means:


(a) Plutonium, uranium 233, uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope
235 and any other material which the governor declares by order to be special nuclear
material after the United States nuclear regulatory commission or any successor has
determined the material to be such, but does not include source material.


(b) Any material artificially enriched by any of the material provided in
subdivision (a) of this paragraph, but does not include source material.