Nuclear Energy Ordinance
(NEO)

For the pur­pose of man­age­ment and dis­pos­al, ra­dio­act­ive waste is clas­si­fied in the fol­low­ing cat­egor­ies:

a.

high level ra­dio­act­ive waste:

1.

spent fuel which is no longer used,

2.

vit­ri­fied fis­sion product solu­tions res­ult­ing from the re­pro­cessing of spent fuel;

b.

al­phat­ox­ic waste: waste in which the con­tent of al­pha emit­ters ex­ceeds 20,000 becquer­els per gram of con­di­tioned waste;

c.

low and in­ter­me­di­ate level waste: all oth­er ra­dio­act­ive waste.