(1) “Byproduct material” means:

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(B) the tailings or wastes produced by the extraction or concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for its source material content;

(C) any discrete source of radium-226 that is produced, extracted, or converted after extraction for use for a commercial, medical, or research activity;

(D) any material that has been made radioactive by use of a particle accelerator and is produced, extracted, or converted after extraction for use for a commercial, medical, or research activity; and

(E) any discrete source of naturally occurring radioactive material, other than source material, that is extracted or converted after extraction for use in a commercial, medical, or research activity, if the governor, after determination by the NRC, declares by order that the source would pose a threat similar to the threat posed by a discrete source of radium-226 to the public health and safety.

(2) “Civil penalty” means any monetary penalty levied on a licensee or registrant because of violations of statutes, regulations, licenses, or registration certificates, but does not include criminal penalties.

(3) “Closure” or “site closure” means all activities performed at a waste disposal site, such as stabilization and contouring, to assure that the site is in a stable condition so that only minor custodial care, surveillance, and monitoring are necessary at the site following termination of a licensed operation.

(4) “Decommissioning” means final operational activities at a facility to dismantle site structures, to decontaminate site surfaces and remaining structures, to stabilize and contain residual radioactive material, and to carry out any other activities to prepare the site for postoperational care.

(5) “Department” means the Indiana department of homeland security established by IC 10-19-2-1.

(6) “Disposal of low-level radioactive waste” means the isolation of such waste from the biosphere by emplacement in a land burial facility.

(7) “General license” means a license effective under regulations promulgated by the department without the filing of an application with the department or the issuance of licensing documents to particular persons to transfer, acquire, own, possess, or use quantities of, or devices or equipment utilizing, radioactive material.

(8) “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; and

(C) solids into which such liquid wastes have been converted.

(9) “Ionizing radiation” means gamma rays and x-rays, alpha and beta particles, high-speed electrons, neutrons, protons, and other nuclear particles; but not sound or radio waves, or visible, infrared, or ultraviolet light.

(10) “Low-level radioactive waste” means radioactive waste not classified as high-level radioactive waste, transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel, or byproduct material.

(11) “Nonionizing radiation” means the following:

(A) Any electromagnetic radiation, other than ionizing electromagnetic radiation.

(B) Any sonic, ultrasonic, or infrasonic wave.

(12) “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, state agency other than the department, political subdivision of this state, any other state or political subdivision or agency thereof, and any legal successor, representative, agent, or agency of the foregoing, but not including federal government agencies.

(13) “Radiation” means ionizing radiation and nonionizing radiation.

(14) “Radiation generating equipment” means any manufactured product or device, or component part of such a product or device, or any machine or system that during operation can generate or emit radiation except those that emit radiation only from radioactive material.

(15) “Radioactive material” means material (solid, liquid, or gas) that emits ionizing radiation spontaneously. It includes accelerator produced, byproduct, naturally occurring, source, and special nuclear materials.

(16) “Registration” means registration with the department in accordance with rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter.

(17) “Source material” means uranium or thorium, or any combination thereof, in any physical or chemical form, or ores which contain by weight one-twentieth of one percent (0.05%) or more of uranium, thorium, or any combination thereof. Source material does not include special nuclear material.

(18) “Source material mill tailings” means the tailings or wastes produced by the extraction or concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for its source material content, including discrete surface wastes resulting from underground solution extraction processes, but not including underground ore bodies depleted by such solution extraction processes.

(19) “Source material milling” means any processing of ore, including underground solution extraction of unmined ore, primarily for the purpose of extracting or concentrating uranium or thorium that results in the production of source material mill tailings.

(20) “Sources of radiation” means collectively, radioactive material and radiation generating equipment.

(21) “Special nuclear material” means plutonium, uranium 233, and uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, but does not include source material; or any material artificially enriched by any of the foregoing, but does not include source material.

(22) “Specific license” means a license, issued to a named person upon application filed under the regulations promulgated under this chapter, to use, manufacture, produce, transfer, receive, acquire, or possess quantities of, or devices or equipment utilizing, radioactive material.

(23) “Spent nuclear fuel” means irradiated nuclear fuel that has undergone at least one (1) year‘s decay since being used as a source of energy in a power reactor. Spent fuel includes the special nuclear material, byproduct material, source material, and other radioactive material associated with fuel assemblies.

(24) “Transuranic waste” means radioactive waste containing alpha emitting transuranic elements, with radioactive half-lives greater than five (5) years, in excess of ten (10) nanocuries per gram.

As added by P.L.28-2022, SEC.2.