Maryland Environment Section 8-401

      (a)      In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

      (b)      "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 reactor 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.

      (c)      "Low-level nuclear waste" means waste that:

            (1)      Contains or is contaminated with radioactive material emitting primarily beta or gamma radiation; and

            (2)      Is neither high-level nuclear waste nor transuranic waste.

      (d)      "Transuranic waste" means waste material that is measured or assumed to contain at least 10 nanocuries of transuranic activity per gram of waste.