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§ 1651. Definitions
In this chapter:
(1) Ionizing radiation means gamma rays and x-rays, alpha and beta particles, high speed electrons, neutrons, protons and other nuclear particles.
(2) Nonionizing radiation means radiations of any wavelength in the entire electromagnetic spectrum except those radiations defined above as ionizing. Nonionizing radiations include, but are not limited to: Ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwave, radiowave, low frequency electromagnetic radiation; infrasonic, sonic and ultrasonic waves; electrostatic and magnetic fields.
(3) Radioactive material means any radioactive material, be it solid, liquid or gas, which emits ionizing radiation spontaneously.
(4) Byproduct 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.
(5) General license means a license effective under regulations promulgated by the state radiation control agency without the filing of an application to transfer, acquire, own, possess or use quantities of, or devices or equipment utilizing byproduct, source or special nuclear materials or other radioactive material occurring naturally or produced artificially.
(6) Specific license means a license, issued after application to use, manufacture, produce, transfer, receive, acquire, own, or possess quantities of, or devices or equipment utilizing byproduct, source or special nuclear materials or other radioactive material occurring naturally or produced artificially.
(7) The department of health is the state radiation control agency, called the agency herein.
(8) 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 thereto, has determined the material to be such; or
(B) ores containing one or more of the foregoing materials, in such concentration as the governor declares by order to be source material after the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or any successor thereto, has determined the material in such concentration to be source material.
(9) Special nuclear material means
(A) plutonium, uranium 223, 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 thereto, has determined the material to be such, but does not include source material; or
(B) any material artificially enriched by any of the foregoing, but does not include source material. (1967, No. 27, § 1; amended 1977, No. 83, § 1.)
