We discuss the radiation problem of total reflection for a time-harmonic generalized Maxwell system in a nonsmooth exterior domain Ω ⊂ RN , N ≥ 3 , with nonsmooth inhomogeneous, anisotropic coefficients converging near infinity with a rate r−τ , τ > 1 , towards the identity. By means of the limiting absorption principle a Fredholm alternative holds true and the eigensolutions decay polynomially...