2012 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
CHAPTER 74. RADIATION CONTROL
§ 7403. Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

(1) "Authority" means the Authority on Radiation Protection created by § 7404 of this title.

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

(3) "General license" means a license or registration effective pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Authority without the filing of an application to transfer, acquire, own, possess or use quantities of or devices or equipment utilizing by-product, source, special nuclear materials or other radioactive material occurring naturally or produced artificially.

(4) "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.

(5) "NARM" means any naturally occurring or accelerator-produced radioactive material, except source material.

(6) "Person," in addition to the definitions contained in § 302 of Title 1, means any public or private institution, group, agency, 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, other than the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission or any successor thereto and other than federal government agencies licensed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission or any successor thereto.

(7) "Radioactive material" means any material (solid, liquid or gas which emits radiation spontaneously (e.g. byproduct, source material, special nuclear material and NARM).

(8) "Source material" means:

a. Uranium, thorium or any other material which the Authority declares to be source material in concurrence with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission or any successor thereto who has determined the material to be such; or

b. Ores containing 1 or more of the foregoing materials in such concentration as the Authority declares by order to be source material in concurrence with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission or any successor thereto who has determined the material in such concentration to be source material.

(9) "Special nuclear material" means:

a. Plutonium, uranium 233, uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, and any other material which the Authority declares by order to be special nuclear material in concurrence with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission or any successor thereto who has determined the material to be such, but does not include source material; or

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

(10) "Specific license" means a license or registration issued by the Authority, after application, to use, manufacture, produce, transfer, receive, acquire, own or possess quantities of or devices or equipment utilizing by-product, source, special nuclear materials or other radioactive material occurring naturally or produced artificially.

(11) "Users of ionizing radiation" means persons who supervise the application of ionizing radiation and/or apply ionizing radiation to human beings for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes.

16 Del. C. 1953, § 7403; 56 Del. Laws, c. 266, § 1; 60 Del. Laws, c. 698, § 1; 67 Del. Laws, c. 192, § 4; 76 Del. Laws, c. 249, § 1.;