Section 125-G:2 Definitions.
In this chapter:
I. ""Committee'' means the nuclear waste policy advisory committee.
II. ""Consultation'' means the sharing of information on planned nuclear waste programs and activities and the right of others to review, comment, and offer recommendations on such activities.
III. ""Council'' means the council on resources and development established under RSA 162-C:1 which shall serve as the nuclear waste technical review council.
IV. ""Densely populated area'' means any area in which more than 500 people are located within the proposed control area of a proposed site of a permanent repository for the disposal of radioactive waste.
V. ""Federal Department of Energy'' means the United States Department of Energy or any successor agency, including its contractors or subcontractors, which is assigned responsibility for the long-term or temporary storage or permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste or any waste not classified as low-level radioactive waste by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
VI. ""High-level radioactive waste'' means:
(a) Irradiated reactor fuel;
(b) Liquid wastes resulting from the operation of the first cycle solvent extraction system, or equivalent, and the concentrated wastes from subsequent extraction cycles, or equivalent, in a facility for reprocessing irradiated reactor fuel;
(c) Solids into which such liquid wastes have been converted;
(d) Other highly radioactive material that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, consistent with existing law, has determined by rule requires permanent isolation; and
(e) Any nuclear waste not classified as low-level radioactive waste by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
VII. ""Office'' means the office of energy and planning.
VIII. ""Nuclear'' means high-level radioactive.
IX. ""State radiation control agency'' means the department of health and human services.
Source. 1986, 176:1. 1995, 310:181. 2003, 319:9. 2004, 257:44, eff. July 1, 2004.