As used in the Radiation Management Act:

1. "Atomic energy" means all forms of energy released in the course of nuclear fission or nuclear transformation;

2. "By-product material" means any radioactive material, except special nuclear material, yielded in or made radioactive by exposure to the ionizing radiation incident to the process of producing or utilizing special nuclear materials;

3. "Production facility" means:

a.any equipment or device determined under authority of the federal Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, to be capable of the production of special nuclear material in such quantity as to be of significance to the common defense and security, or in such manner as to affect the health and safety of the public, or

b.any important component part especially designed for such equipment or device;

4. "Special nuclear material" means:

a.plutonium, uranium 233, uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, and any other material which is determined to be special nuclear material under authority of the federal Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, but does not include source material, or

b.any material artificially enriched by any of the foregoing, but does not include source material;

5. "Utilization facility" means:

a.any equipment or device, except an atomic or nuclear weapon, as determined under authority of the federal Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, to be capable of making use of special nuclear materials in such quantity as to be of significance to the common defense and security or in such manner as to affect the health and safety of the public, or peculiarly adapted for making use of atomic energy in such quantity as to be of significance to the common defense and security or in such manner as to affect the health and safety of the public, or

b.any important component part especially designed for such equipment or device;

6. "Ionizing radiation" means any electromagnetic or particulate radiation capable of producing ions, directly or indirectly, in its passage through matter, such as alpha particles, beta particles, gamma rays, X-rays, neutrons, high-speed electrons, high-speed protons, and other atomic particles, but not sound or radio waves, or visible, infrared, or ultraviolet light;

7. "Nonionizing radiation" means radiation in any portion of the electromagnetic spectrum not defined as ionizing radiation, and at energy levels which may reasonably be expected to cause bodily harm, including, but not limited to, emissions from such sources as lasers, microwave and ultraviolet devices;

8. "Radiation" means ionizing and nonionizing radiation;

9. "Source of radiation" means any radioactive material or any instrument or material capable of producing or emitting radiation as defined in the preceding paragraph;

10. "Radiation hazard" is any condition that could, with reasonable expectation, result in harmful radiation exposure in such manner as to affect the health and safety of the public and the environment;

11. "Source material" means:

a.uranium or thorium, or any combination thereof, in any physical or chemical form, or

b.ores which contain by weight one-twentieth of one percent (1/20 of 1%) or more of uranium, thorium, or any combination thereof.

Source material does not include special nuclear material;

12. "Diagnostic x-ray facility" means the use of an x-ray system(s) by a facility in any procedure that involves irradiation of any part of a human or animal body for the purpose of diagnosis;

13. "Electronic product radiation" means:

a.any ionizing or nonionizing electromagnetic or particulate radiation, or

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 such product; and

14. "Electronic product" means:

a.any manufactured or assembled product which, when in operation:

(1)contains or acts as part of an electronic circuit, and

(2)emits, or would emit in the absence of effective shielding or other controls, electronic product radiation, or

b.any manufactured or assembled article which is intended for use as a component, part, or accessory of a product described in subparagraph a of this definition and which, when in operation, emits (or in the absence of effective shielding would emit) such radiation.

Added by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 133, eff. July 1, 1993.