2012 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
CHAPTER 74. RADIATION CONTROL
§ 7417. Storage of radioactive material.
(a) No facility for the permanent deposit, storage, reprocessing or disposal of spent nuclear fuel elements, or for the permanent deposit, storage, reprocessing or disposal of high or low-level radioactive waste material, shall be constructed or established in this State unless the Authority on Radiation Protection first finds that such facility promotes the general good of the State and approves, after a public hearing, a petition for the approval of such facility.
(b) No high-level waste material shall be held in temporary storage for longer than 5 years.
(c) No low-level radioactive waste material shall be held in temporary storage for longer than 10 years.
(d) Whenever the Authority on Radiation Protection finds that the continued presence of a facility for the deposit, storage, reprocessing or disposal of materials in subsection (a) of this section is injurious to the public welfare, the Authority shall issue its order shutting the facility and requiring immediate removal of such material.
61 Del. Laws, c. 432, § 1; 67 Del. Laws, c. 192, § 7; 70 Del. Laws, c. 145, § 1.;
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