Section 7-225 - High-level nuclear waste facility prohibited. - Maryland Statutes

§ 7-225. High-level nuclear waste facility prohibited.
 

(a)  "High-level nuclear waste" defined.- In this section, "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 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. 

(b)  Scope of section.- This section does not apply to the federal government, this State, any county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of this State, or any of their units. 

(c)  Facility prohibited; exception.- Except as expressly otherwise required by federal law, a person may not establish or operate a high-level nuclear waste facility for the treatment, permanent storage, or disposal of any high-level nuclear waste or transuranic waste. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 43, §§ 689B, 689C; 1982, ch. 240, § 2.]