§2021j Radioactive waste below regulatory concern

Summary

Within 6 months after January 15, 1986, the Commission must create rules and build the technical ability to review and decide requests to remove specific radioactive waste streams from the Commission’s regulation when the radioactive material in them is present in such small amounts or low concentrations that they do not need regulation. Those rules must say what information licensees must send with a request. At minimum, a request must give a detailed description of the waste (where it came from, chemical makeup, physical form, volume, and mass) and the radioactive details (which radioactive atoms are present, how much of each is there or their contamination levels, and the half-lives of those radioactive atoms).