---
kind: "unit"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
key: "ch108"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 108"
heading: "Nuclear Waste Policy"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/ch108"
sections_count: 92
---

# Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

## Sections

- [§10101. Definitions](/usc/42/10101.md)
- [§10102. Separability](/usc/42/10102.md)
- [§10103. Territories and possessions](/usc/42/10103.md)
- [§10104. Ocean disposal](/usc/42/10104.md)
- [§10105. Limitation on spending authority](/usc/42/10105.md)
- [§10106. Protection of classified national security information](/usc/42/10106.md)
- [§10107. Applicability to atomic energy defense activities](/usc/42/10107.md)
- [§10108. Applicability to transportation](/usc/42/10108.md)
- [§10109. Biennial report on the spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste inventory in the United States](/usc/42/10109.md)

## Contents

- [Subchapter I — Disposal and Storage of High-Level Radioactive Waste, Spent Nuclear Fuel, and Low-Level Radioactive Waste](/usc/42/ch108-schI.md)
- [Subchapter II — Research, Development, and Demonstration Regarding Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel](/usc/42/ch108-schII.md)
- [Subchapter III — Other Provisions Relating to Radioactive Waste](/usc/42/ch108-schIII.md)
- [Subchapter IV — Nuclear Waste Negotiator](/usc/42/ch108-schIV.md)
- [Subchapter V — Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board](/usc/42/ch108-schV.md)