Low-level radioactive waste

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-016173",
  "term": "Low-level radioactive waste",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Low-Level Radioactive Waste",
  "definition": "1. Wastes less hazardous than most of those associated with a nuclear reactor; generated by hospitals, research laboratories, and certain industries. The Department of Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and EPA share responsibilities for managing them.\n\n2. A legal definition from the Atomic Energy Act. Radioactive waste that is not uranium or thorium mill tailings, spent nuclear fuel, or high level waste. Low-level does necessarily not mean “low radioactivity.”\n\n3. Radioactively contaminated industrial or research waste that is not spent nuclear fuel, high-level radioactive waste, transuranic radioactive waste or uranium mill tailings. Low-level radioactive waste could include items such as paper, rags, plastic bags, or water-treatment residues.\n\n4. Waste material which contains radioactive nuclides emitting primarily beta or gamma radiation, or both, in concentrations or quantities that exceed applicable federal or State standards for unrestricted release. Low-level radioactive waste is not high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, or by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2014(e)(2)).\n\n5. Radioactive waste that is not uranium or thorium mill tailings, transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel, or high level waste. Low-level does necessarily not mean “low radioactivity.”",
  "abbreviation": "LLRW",
  "subject": "Air",
  "references": [
    "Terms of Environment",
    "Radiation Protection Radiation Glossary",
    "RadTown Glossary",
    "40 CFR 60.51c (CFR 2013); 40 CFR 62.14490 (CFR 2018); 40 CFR 62.14840 (CFR 2018)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/low-level-radioactive-waste/"
}