Montana Code 10-3-1302. Purpose
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10-3-1302. Purpose. The purpose of this part is to enhance the safety of Montana’s citizens by requiring a special permit, inspections, and monitoring of shipments of high-level radioactive waste and transuranic waste that travel through Montana by motor carrier or railroad.
Terms Used In Montana Code 10-3-1302
- High-level radioactive waste: means :
(a)the highly radioactive material resulting from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, including liquid waste produced directly in reprocessing and any solid material derived from the liquid waste that contains fission products in sufficient concentrations;
(b)irradiated reactor fuel; or
(c)other highly radioactive waste material that the U. See Montana Code 10-3-1303
- Transuranic waste: means material contaminated with elements that have an atomic number greater than 92, including neptunium, plutonium, americium, and curium, and that are in concentrations greater than 10 nanocuries per gram or in other concentrations that the U. See Montana Code 10-3-1303