Appendix Acronyms and Abbreviations

APPENDIX B ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

“CE marking” mandatory, regulatory marking for AFSSAPS French Health Product Safety certain products in the European Agency Union, guaranteeing product conformity with the “essential AFSSET French Agency for Environmental requirements” defined by a and Occupational Health Safety European directive (created in September 2005, incorporated into the National Agency ACC hulls and end-pieces compaction responsible for food, environment facility (AREVA NC – La Hague) and occupational health safety in 2010) ACN Aarhus Convention and Nuclear (ANCCLI initiative) AGATE effluent advanced management and processing facility (CEA – ACO Orsay collider ring (LURE – CNRS Cadarache) – Orsay) ALARA As Low As Reasonably Achievable ACR resins conditioning facility (AREVA (radiation protection principle also NC – La Hague) called “optimisation principle”)

ACRO Association for the Control of ALLEGRO experimental low-power, non-elec- Radioactivity in the West tricity generating, gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR) project AD2 technological waste packaging facility (AREVA NC – La Hague) ALQA Lorraine Air Quality Association

ADEME French Environment and Energy ALS Saclay linear accelerator (CEA) Management Agency AMDE French equivalent of FMEA (Failure ADF Assembly of départements of France Modes and Effects Analysis)

ADNR Agreement on the transport of dan- AMI irradiated material facility (EDF – gerous substances on the Rhine Chinon)

ADR European Agreement concerning ANCCLI National Association of Local the International Carriage of Information Commissions and Dangerous Goods by Road Committees (since 2009)

ADS Accelerator Driven System ANCLI National Association of Local (nuclear reactor driven by a particle Information Committees (until accelerator) 2009)

AERB Atomic Energy Regulatory Board ANDRA French National Agency for (Indian regulatory body) Radioactive Waste Management

AFCEN French Association for NSSS ANSES National Agency responsible for Equipment Construction Rules Health and Safety of Food, the Environment and Work (since July AFPPE French Association of 2010) Electroradiology Paramedical Staff ANSN See NNSA AFSSA French Agency for Food Safety (incorporated into the National ANSTO Australian Nuclear Science and Agency responsible for food, envi- Technology Organisation ronment and occupational health safety in 2010) AP 913 maintenance doctrine (EDF)

420 AP1000 Pressurised Water Reactor designed AT1 Former pilot reprocessing plant for by Westinghouse spent fuel from fast neutron reactors (CEA – La Hague) APE state-based approach (principle governing incident or accident ATALANTE Alpha facility and laboratory for situation operating strategies) transuranian elements analysis and reprocessing studies (CEA – APEC fuel evacuation facility (EDF – Marcoule) Creys-Malville – Isère) ATENA former project for a contaminated AP-HP Public Health Service – Paris sodium waste treatment installation Hospitals (CEA)

ARCCAD renovated conditioning facility, ATEX EXplosive ATmospheres (ATEX Cadarache (CEA) regulations)

AREVA industrial group active in the ATMEA joint venture between AREVA and nuclear fuel cycle and construction MHI responsible for the develop- of nuclear installations ment, commercialisation, certification and sale of ATMEA 1, a new AREVA NC fuel cycle licensee (AREVA group) 1100 Mwe reactor AREVA NP designer and builder of nuclear ATPu plutonium technology facility power plants (AREVA group) (AREVA NC – Cadarache) ARH Regional Hospitalisation Agency ATSR French Association for Technical (integrated in the ARS in 2010) and Scientific Radiation Protection ARS Regional Health Agency (since 2010) ATUE enriched uranium processing facili- ASF systematic training approach ty (CEA – Cadarache)

ASG steam generator auxiliary feedwater AZF former name of the company opera- system (PWR) ting the fertiliser plant destroyed in the 21 September 2001 accident in ASN French regulatory body Toulouse

ASND Defence Nuclear Safety Authority BAC waste auxiliary buildings (structure responsible for regulating nuclear safety and radiation protec- BAG glovebox tion with regard to defence-related nuclear activities and installations. BAM German Federal Institute for It is placed under the authority of Materials Research and Testing DSND) BAN nuclear auxiliary buildings ASQA air quality monitoring association BASIAS French former industrial sites and ASR simple refuelling outage (PWR) departments activity database

ASSET Assessment of Safety Significant BASOL French database of polluted sites Events Team (IAEA expertise) and soils requiring action by the public authorities ASTRID prototype sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) projet (CEA) BCI spent fuel building

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BCOT Tricastin operational hot unit CAPRA increased consumption of pluto- (nuclear maintenance installation – nium in fast neutron reactors (plu- EDF – Bollène) tonium burnup research programme – CEA) BEA French Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau CARES underwater storage facility (CEA – Cadarache) BEA-TT French Land transport accident investigation bureau CASCAD Cadarache bunker research reactor spent fuel storage facility (CEA) BEAD-air French Defence Air Accident Investigation Bureau CBNI Classified Basic Nuclear Installation

BEA-mer French Marine Accident CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radiological Investigation bureau and Nuclear (CBRN) hazard

BECQUEREL – unit of radioactivity CCAP French Central Committee for Pressure Equipment – name of a nuclear exercise held in 1996 in Saclay CCINB BNI Consultative Committee (until 2010) BEIR Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations (United CDE definitive cessation of operational States Academy of Science activity (notion qualifying a phase Committee) in the life of a BNI, used before the 2006 reform) Bel V Technical Safety Organisation and subsidiary of FANC (since 2008) CEA French Atomic Energy Commission (now the Atomic Energy and BMU German Federal Ministry for the Alternative Energy Commission) Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety CEDRA radioactive waste packaging and interim storage unit (CEA – BNFL British Nuclear Fuels Limited Cadarache)

BNI Basic Nuclear Installation CEIDRE Construction and Operation Expert Appraisal and Inspection Centre BO Official Bulletin (EDF)

Bq becquerel (unit of radioactivity) CELIMENE former unit used to examine EL3 reactor fuel (CEA – Saclay) BRGM French Geological and Mining Research Office CENAL National Alarm Centre (division of the Swiss Federal Office for the pro- BSF drum storage building (EDF – tection of the population: the Chooz) Confederation's technical organ for extraordinary events such as BTE effluent treatment building increases in radioactivity or various other technological accidents) BWR Boiling Water Reactor CENTRACO low-level waste processing and pac- CABRI research reactor (CEA – Cadarache) kaging centre (CEA – Marcoule)

CADA Committee of Access to CEPN Nuclear Protection Evaluation Administrative Documents Centre

422 CERCA Company for the Design and CIRCE transfer packaging containing radio- Fabrication of Atomic Fuel active organic waste (CEA – Fontenay-aux Roses) CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research CIRIL Interdisciplinary ion laser research centre – CNRS & CEA – Caen CFCa Cadarache fabrication complex (COGEMA – MOX facility) CIS-Bio Company specialising in biomedical International technologies, especially radiophar- CFU Colony forming unit (CFU per litre maceuticals is the unit used to measure the CISSCT Inter-firm Health, Safety and concentration of legionella) Working Conditions Committee (for EDF power plants) CG Conseil général (département-level elected council) CITMD French Interministerial Commission for the Carriage of Hazardous CGEDD French Departmental Council for Goods the Environment and Sustainable Development (Ministry for Ecology, ClF3 chlorine trifluoride Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea, in charge of Green CLI Local Information Committee Technologies and Climate Negotiations) CLIGEET Tricastin major energy facility local information committee (name of the CGIET General Council for Industry, CLI on the Tricastin site since 2008) Energy and Technologies (Ministry for the Economy, Industry and CLIO free electron laser (LURE – CNRS – Employment) Orsay)

CH Hospital Centre CLIS – Local Committee for Information and Follow-up – name of the CLI CHICADE Chemistry, waste characterization for underground laboratories (CEA Cadarache) – Local Committee for Information and Monitoring (name of the CLI CHRU Regional university hospital at the Fessenheim plant since 2009) CHSCT Committee for Health, Safety and CMIR mobile radiological intervention Working Conditions unit CHU University hospital CMS maximum design flood level (flood protection) CIA incident or accident response procedure (PWR) CNA Ardennes first French PWR – Chooz A reactor – EDF CICNR French Interministerial Committee for Nuclear or Radiological CNA-D Equipment storage facility during Emergencies – since 2003 decommissioning of the Chooz A reactor (EDF – Chooz) CIDEN Nuclear Environmental and Decommissioning Engineering CNAM French National Health Insurance Centre – EDF Fund

CIPN Nuclear Equipment Engineering CNAR French National Funding Department – EDF Commission for Radioactive Matters

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CNDP French National Public Debates CODIS-CTA Departmental Fire and Emergency Commission Operational Centre – Alert Processing Centre CNE National Review Board (concerning Cofrac French Accreditation Committee progress made in research into and studies on the management of Cofrend French Non-Destructive Testing radioactive materials and waste) Confederation

CNE2 second National Review Board COGEMA Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires (AREVA group, now (commission set up after the known as AREVA-NC) “Waste” Act of 28 June 2006) COGEMA nuclear materials packaging and CNEN National Centre for Nuclear LOGISTICS transport company (COGEMA sub- Equipment – EDF sidiary)

CNEPE National Electricity Generating COGIC French Government Emergency Management Operational Centre Equipment Centre – EDF COLEN standing committee on nuclear CNPE Nuclear Power Generation Site – pressure equipment EDF COLTI operational committee for the pre- CNRA Committee on Nuclear Regulatory vention of illegal labour Activities (NEA) COMURHEX Société pour la conversion de l’uranium en métal et en hexafluorure CNRS French National Centre for (Company for the conversion of Scientific Research uranium into metal and hexafluoride) (AREVA group) CNSC Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission CONCERT Concertation on European Regulatory Tasks (grouping of the nuclear regu- Co Cobalt latory bodies from eastern and western European countries) CO carbon dioxide 2 Contrôle magazine published by ASN

CODERST Departmental Council for the COPAT Plant Unit Shutdown Steering Environment and for Health and Committee (EDF) Technological Risks (since 2006) CoRWM Committee on Radioactive Waste Codex collection of food health safety and Management (high-level group of British experts on radioactive waste consumer protection standards pro- management) duced by a Alimentarius commission set up by the FAO and the COSRAC Committee for the Monitoring of WHO Research on the Cycle Back-End

CODIRPA Steering committee for managing COWAM Community Waste Management (“concerted action” by the European the post-accident phase of a nuclear Union’s 5th framework R&D pro- accident or radiological emergency gramme concerning local decision- situation making with regard to nuclear waste)

424 CP Command Post CSNI Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (NEA) CP0 first series of 900 MWe PWRs (EDF) CSP – French Public Health Code CP1 1st subdivision of the CPY series – main secondary cooling system (PWR) CP2 2nd subdivision of the CPY series CSPRT High Council for the Prevention of CPA special authorisation conditions – Technological Risks (since 2010) radiation sources CSS – Commission on Safety Standards CPE special utilisation conditions – (IAEA) radiation sources CSTB Building Industry Scientific and CPP main primary (cooling) system Technical Centre (PWR) CSTFA VLL waste repository (ANDRA – CPY second series of 900 MWe PWRs Morvilliers – Aube département) (EDF) CT Labour Code CRAM Regional Health Insurance Fund CTC Technical Emergency Centre CRIIRAD Committee for Independent Research and Information on CTCAE Common Terminology Criteria for Radioactivity Adverse Events (criteria used to rate the side-effects of cancer treat- CRPPH Committee on Radiation Protection ments) and Public Health (NEA) D/E EB unit of the AREVA NC plant at La CSA Aube waste repository (ANDRA) Hague (former name of the CSFMA) D/E EDS solid waste storage/storage removal CSD-B standard bituminised waste package (AREVA NC – La Hague) CSD-C standard compacted waste package DAC authorisation decree (BNI CSD-V standard vitrified waste package procedure)

CSFMA low and intermediate level waste DAPE operation extension approval disposal facility (ANDRA) dossier for BNIs

CSG irradiated graphite disposal centre DCI Communication and Public Information Department (ASN) CSIC High Council for Classified Installations DCN – Nuclear Power Plants Department (ASN) CSLU Laboratories and Plants Safety – Nuclear Fuels Division (EDF) Commission (reporting to the DSND, having competence for DDAC Community law adaptations bill defence-related nuclear laboratories and plants) DDASS Departmental Health and Social Action Directorate (until 2010) CSM Manche waste repository (ANDRA) DDTEFP Departmental Labour, Employment CSN Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear and Professional Training (Spanish regulatory body) Directorate (until 2010)

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DEM decommissioning DGPR General Directorate for Risk Prevention (Ministry for Ecology, DEP Nuclear Pressure Equipment Energy, Sustainable Development Department (ASN) and the Sea, in charge of Green Technologies and Climate DEU Environment and Emergency Negotiations) Department (ASN) DGS General Directorate for Health – DFD Franco-German Steering Committee Ministry for Health and Sport for Nuclear Safety Issues DGSNR General Directorate for Nuclear DFK Franco-German Committee for Safety and Radiation Protection Nuclear Plant Safety Issues (ASN central structure until the November 2006 reform) DfT Department for Transport (United Kingdom) DGT – Director General for Labour – General Directorate for Labour DG/TREN Directorate-General for Energy and (Ministry for Labour, Labour Transport (European Commission) Relations, the Family, Solidarity and Urban Affairs DGAC General Directorate for Civil Aviation – Ministry for Ecology, DHOS Directorate for Hospitalisation and Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea, in charge of Green Health Care Organisation – Ministry Technologies and Climate for Health, and Sport (until 2010) Negotiations DHUP Directorate of Housing, Planning DGCCRF General Directorate for Competition and Landscape (Ministry for Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Control – Ministry for the Economy, Development and the Sea, in charge Industry and Employment of Green Technologies and Climate Negotiations) DGDDI General Directorate of Customs and Excise (Ministry for the Budget, DIADEM irradiating or alpha waste from Public Accounts, the Civil Service decommissioning and State Reform) DIN Nuclear Engineering Division – DGEC General Directorate for Energy and EDF Climate (Ministry for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development DIS Ionising Radiation and Health and the Sea, in charge of Green Department (ASN) Technologies and Climate Negotiations) DIT Industrial Activities and Transport Department (ASN – until end DGITM General Directorate for of 2010) Infrastructure, Transport and the Sea (Ministry for Ecology, Energy, DNA deoxyribonucleic acid Sustainable Development and the Sea, in charge of Green DOE Department of Energy (United Technologies and Climate States) Negotiations) DOS safety options file (for BNIs) DGOS General Directorate for Health Care (Ministry of Work, Employment DOT Department of Transportation and Health ) (since 2010) (USA)

426 DPAEP Directorate for Personnel DSND Delegate for Nuclear Safety and Management and Adaptation of the Radiation Protection for National Professional Environment (Ministry Defence Installations and Activities for the Economy, Industry and (see ASND) Employment) (since 2006) DSS Social Security Directorate – DPI Production and Engineering Ministry for Health Directorate (EDF) DTPA diethylene-triamine-penta-acetate (substance used in nuclear DPN Nuclear Operation Division (EDF) medicine) DQPRM Medical and Radiological Physics DTS Transport and Sources Department qualifying diploma (ASN – since beginning of 2011)

DRASS Regional Health and Social Action DUP declaration of public interest Directorate (until 2010) procedure

DRC Nuclear Waste, Research Facilities, E.ON electricity and gas production and and Cycle Department (ASN – since distribution company (Germany, beginning of 2011) various countries in Europe and the United States) DRD Research Facilities and Waste Department (ASN – until end of EAN European ALARA Network (the aim 2010) of which is to promote implementation of the ALARA DREAL – Regional Directorate for the principle) Environment, Planning and Housing EAS reactor building containment spray system (PWR) – Regional Director for the Environment, Planning and EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction Housing and Development

DRI International Relations Department EC European Community (ASN) ECURIE European Community Urgent DRIRE – Regional Director for Industry, Radiological Information Exchange Research and the Environment System (until 2010) EDE containment annulus ventilation – Regional Directorate for Industry, system (PWR) Research and the Environment (until 2010) EDF Électricité De France

DRL Diagnostic Reference Level EDS solid waste interim storage area

DRTEFP Regional Labour, Employment and EEC European Economic Community Professional Training Directorate EESC European Economic and Social DRYPAC sludge drying process (until 2010) Committee

DSC – Director of Civil Security EEVLH glass storage building extension on the La Hague site (AREVA NC – La – Directorate for Civil Security Hague) (Ministry of the Interior, Overseas France and Territorial EEVSE glass storage building (AREVA NC – Communities) (since 2008) La Hague)

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EFOMP European Federation of EPRD revenue and spending forecast Organisations in Medical Physics (public establishment “budget”)

EFPD effective full-power day ERNET Emergency Response Network (IAEA) EGRA Expert Group on the Regulatory Application of Authorisation (sub- ERP establishment open to the public group of the NEA’s CRPPH) ERR European Radiation Research EIS element important for safety society EL3 heavy water reactor No. 3 (former ESE significant environmental event experimental reactor – CEA – Saclay) ESP pressure vessel EL4 heavy water reactor No. 4 (former Monts d’Arrée nuclear power plant ESPN nuclear pressure vessel – EDF – Brennilis) ESR significant radiation protection EL4-D equipment interim storage event installation for decommissioning of the Monts d’Arrée nuclear power ESRF European Synchrotron Radiation plant Facility (Grenoble)

ELAN II B former sealed source fabrication ESS significant safety event installation (CEA – La Hague) EST significant transport event ENEF European Nuclear Energy Forum ETARE establishments listed for emergency ENS European Nuclear Society response purposes ENSI Eidgenössisches ETPT French acronym for Full-Time Nuklearsicherheitsinspektorat (Swiss regulatory body since 1st January Equivalent (FTE) 2009) EU European Union ENSREG European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group (high-level group set up by EURANOS European approach to nuclear and the European Commission to deal radiological emergency with nuclear safety and waste management and rehabilitation management – former HLG) strategies

ENT Ear, Nose and Throat EURATOM European Atomic Energy Community EOLE research reactor (CEA – Cadarache) EUROCLI European Association of Local EP public inquiry Information Committees and European dialogue forums EPA Environmental Protection Agency (United States) EURODIF European gaseous diffusion enrichment plant EPAL Emergency Preparedness and Action Levels (population protection measures harmonisation group – EUROFAB Fabrication in Europe (experimental HERCA) programme to produce MOX fuel from military plutonium under the EPR Evolutionary Pressurized Water terms of the American-Russian Reactor (new type of nuclear reactor agreement to reduce plutonium developed by AREVA NP) stocks)

428 EVEREST French acronym for "evolving GALICE nuclear fuel management method towards entry without standard (EDF) suit" (entry into a controlled area in working overalls – initiative GAMMATEC ionisation installation (ISOTRON implemented by EDF) France company in Marcoule)

FANC Belgian Federal Agency for Nuclear GANIL Large National Heavy Ion Control Accelerator (Caen) FANR Federal Authority for Nuclear GB I Georges Besse Plant I – EURODIF regulation (regulatory body of the United Arab Emirates) GB II Georges Besse Plant II FAO Food and Agriculture Organization (UN) GBq gigabecquerel (thousand million becquerels) FBFC Franco-Belgian Fuel Fabrication Company Génération IV International “Forum” of ten countries and the European Union FDG fluorodeoxyglucose (substance used to develop future nuclear reactors, in nuclear medicine) known as 4th generation (GEN IV)

FISA Fission Safety (biennial conferences GEP pluralistic expert group on nuclear reactor safety organised by the European Union) GESI French group of Electronic Fire Safety industries FMEA Failure Modes and Effects Analysis GFR gas-cooled fast reactor FNR fast neutron reactor GIAG serious accident action guide FOD Field Operations Directorate (HSE directorate) GIE economic interest grouping FOPH Federal Office of Public Health (Switzerland) GIF Generation IV International Forum of ten countries and the European FOSSEA CEA project for recovering waste Union to develop future nuclear stored in old pits reactors, known as 4th generation

FP fission products GIMELEC French industry association for electrical equipment, automation FRAMATOME French NSSS builder (now known and related services as AREVA NP) GL guideline level (set by the Codex FRAMATOME-ANPFramatome – Advanced Nuclear Alimentarius for Radionuclides in Power (company set up by AREVA Foods) and SIEMENS to develop the new EPR reactor type – now known as GOR general operating rules AREVA NP) GP (or GPE) Advisory Committee FRAREG Framatome Regulators (Association of regulatory bodies in countries (reporting to ASN) operating power plants of French design) GPD Advisory Committee for waste (reporting to ASN) FTE Full-Time Equivalent GPESPN Advisory Committee for nuclear G8 Group of the 8 leading industrial pressure equipment (reporting to nations (G7 + Russia) ASN)

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GPMDR “Radioactive Materials and Waste” HAS French National Authority for Advisory Committee (ANCCLI) Health – since 2005 (reporting to ASN) HCSP French High Public Health Council GPMED Advisory Committee for medical exposure (reporting to ASN) HCTISN French High Committee for Transparency and Information on GPPA “Territories – Post-nuclear-accident Nuclear Security (created by the 13 management” Advisory Committee June 2006 Act) (ANCCLI) (reporting to ASN) HERCA Heads of European Radiation GPR Advisory Committee for nuclear Control Authorities reactors (reporting to ASN) HFD Defence High Official GPRAD Advisory Committee for radiation protection (non-medical) (reporting HFDS Defence and Security High Official to ASN) HFR High Flux Reactor (Joint Research GPT Advisory Committee for transport Centre of the European (reporting to ASN) Commission – Petten – Netherlands) GPU Advisory Committee for nuclear laboratories and plants (reporting to HL High-level ASN) HLLLW high level long-lived waste GRNC Nord Cotentin Radioecology Group (pluralistic experts group set up by HSE Health and Safety Executive (United ASN and the ministries concerned Kingdom) to look at the issue of the radiological impact of nuclear HSE/ND Health and Safety activities in the Nord Cotentin Executive/Nuclear Directorate (UK region) regulatory body – HSE) GRS Gesellschaft für Anlagen und Reaktorsicherheit (technical support HSK Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety organisation for the German Inspectorate (Swiss regulatory regulatory body) body)

GSS Moisture Separator-Reheater System HT tritium gas (PWR) HTO tritiated water GV steam generator HTR High Temperature Reactor GWd gigawatt day (unit of energy) Hydrotéléray network for continuous GWd/t gigawatt day per ton (volume measurement of radioactivity in energy unit) major rivers (IRSN)

Gy gray (unit of absorbed dose) IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency (UN) H1N1 pandemic H1N1 virus IARC International Agency for Research HAO oxide high activity facility (AREVA on Cancer (part of the WHO and NC – La Hague) located in Lyons)

HARMONIE former fast neutron source reactor ICAO International Civil Aviation (CEA – Cadarache) Organization

430 ICCRB International Consultative ILO International Labour Organization Committee of Regulatory Bodies (UN) (group comprising representatives from the Regulatory authorities of IMDG Code International Maritime Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Dangerous Goods Co Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States for the IN Nuclear Inspection (EDF) purpose of advising the Ukrainian regulatory body with respect to the INCa French National Cancer Institute Chernobyl site) INERIS French National Institute for the ICEDA activated waste packaging and Study of Industrial Environments interim storage installation (EDF and Risks interim storage project) INES International Nuclear Event Scale ICL Loire Cancerology Institute INF International Code for the Safe Carriage of Packaged Irradiated ICPE installation classified on Nuclear Fuel, Plutonium and High- environmental protection grounds Level Radioactive Wastes on Board (owing to its potential impact on Ships the public and the environment, installation subject to the INPO Institute of Nuclear Power regulations defined in part I of book Operations (United States) V of the French Environment Code) INRA – International Nuclear Regulators ICRP International Commission on Association (comprising the Radiological Protection regulators from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Sweden, ICRU International Commission on United Kingdom and the United Radiation Units and Measurements States)

ICSI Institut for an Industrial Safety – French National Institute for Culture Agricultural Research

ICSN French acronym for the Nuclear INSAG International Nuclear Safety Safety Cooperation Instrument Advisory Group (IAEA) (NSCI) (European Union) INSERM French National Health and Medical IDSP weighted scanner dose index Research Institute INSTN French National Institute for IDT Uncoupling and transit installation Nuclear Science and Technology – CEA IEC International Electrotechnical Commission InVS French Health Monitoring Institute

IFSN Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety IO ITER Organization Inspectorate (since 1 January 2009) IONISOS company operating irradiation IGAS General Inspectorate of Social installations Affairs IPA Instrument for Pre-Accession ILE ITER Legal Entity (international Assistance (European Union) body to be created to operate ITER) IPN French Nuclear Physics Institute – ILL Laue-Langevin Institute – Grenoble Orsay

IL-LL intermediate level long-lived (waste) IRCA Cadarache irradiator (CEA)

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IRE National Radioelements Institute, JNES Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Fleurus – Belgium Organization (technical support organisation for the Japanese IRPA International Radiation Protection regulatory body) Association JO French Official Gazette IRRS Integrated Regulatory Review Service (regulatory body KEPCO Kansai Electric Power Company organisation audit performed by the (Japanese electricity production IAEA) utility)

IRSN French Institute for Radiation KEY experimental sealing of drifts by pouring an “anchoring key” Protection and Nuclear Safety – (ANDRA – Bure) since 2002 KINS Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety IS Ouest Institut de Soudure Ouest (Welding (technical support organisation for Institute - West) the South Korean regulatory body)

ISIS research reactor (CEA – Saclay) KKU Unterweser nuclear power plant (Germany) ISO International Organisation for Standardization kW kilowatt

ISOE Information System on LAMA active materials analysis laboratory Occupational Exposure (OECD) (CEA – Grenoble)

ISOTRON company operating ionisation LCC central product quality control installations laboratory (AREVA NC – La Hague)

IT conventional safety LCIE electrical certification and testing inspection/conventional safety entity for Bureau Veritas inspectorate LCPu plutonium chemistry laboratory ITER International Thermonuclear (CEA – Fontenay-aux-Roses) Experimental Reactor (to be installed in Cadarache) LDAC fuel assembly shearing laboratory (CEA – Cadarache) JAA Joint Aviation Authorities (Association of the national civil LECA active fuel examination laboratory aviation authorities of the European (CEA – Cadarache) countries, attached to the European LECI spent fuel testing laboratory (CEA – Civil Aviation Conference. It sets Saclay) guidelines for civil aviation certification, operations, LEFCA Laboratory for research and maintenance and licensing) experimental fabrication of advanced nuclear fuels (CEA – JAR Joint Aviation Requirements (rules Cadarache) drafted by the JAA) LEP Large Electron Positron Collider JAR-OPS Joint Aviation Requirements- (CERN – Geneva) Operations (rules drafted by the JAA concerning aircraft operations) LFR Lead-cooled Fast reactor

JFR French radiology days (annual LHA high activity laboratory (CEA – conference organised by SFR) JNES Saclay)

432 LHC Large Hadron Collider (CERN – MDEP Design Evaluation Programme Geneva) (multinational initiative for which the NEA is secretary and LIL low and intermediate level (waste) Multinational which is designed to pool the knowledge of the LIL-SL low or intermediate level short-lived regulatory bodies who will be (waste) responsible for regulatory assessment of new reactors) LL-LL low level long-lived (waste) MDG large components cutting unit (EDF LOLF French constitutional bylaw on budget acts – Creys-Malville – Isère département) LPC Chemical Purification Laboratory (AREVA NC – Cadarache) MDS organic solvent mineralisation facility (AREVA NC – La Hague) LUDD Laboratories, Plants, Waste and Decommissioning MDSB solvents mineralisation facility (AREVA NC – La Hague) LURE Electromagnetic Radiation Laboratory (CNRS – Orsay) MEA Management and Expertise Office (ASN) M€ mégaeuros (million euros) MEAH National mission for hospital M5 name of a zirconium and niobium appraisal and audit based alloy MEDDTL Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable MAD final shutdown Development, Transport and Housing (since November 2010) MAD/DEM Final shutdown and decommissioning (BNI procedure) MEEDDAT Ministry for Ecology, Energy, MAGENTA cellular nuclear materials storage Sustainable Development and facility project (CEA – Cadarache) Spatial Planning (from 2008 to June 2009) MAPu medium level plutonium (MAPu facility: AREVA NC – La Hague) MEEDDM Ministry for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the MARN Nuclear Risk Management Support Sea, in charge of Green Team – Ministry of the Technologies and Climate Interior/DDSC Negotiations (since June 2009)

MAS alpha special intermediate level alpha MELOX MOX fuel fabrication plant effluent (Marcoule)

MASURCA Cadarache fast-breeder mockup MELUSINE research reactor (CEA – Grenoble) (research reactor – CEA – Cadarache) MEM Moroccan Ministry of Energy and Mining MAU medium level uranium activity (MAU facility: AREVA NC – La Hague) MERM radiographer

MBq megabecquerel (million becquerels) METI Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry MCMF central fissile material warehouse (CEA – Cadarache) Meuros Million euros

MDB River authority MeV megaelectron volt

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MEXT Ministry of Education, Culture, N4 1450 MWe nuclear reactor series Sports, Science and Technology – (EDF) Japan Natura 2000 All the natural sites protected by MHI Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd various European directives (Japanese company working in the concerning birdlife and “natural nuclear power plant sector, among habitats” others) NCACG National Competent Authorities’ MHPE Maximum Historically Probable Coordinating Group (IAEA) Earthquake NEA Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD) MIBI methoxy isobutyl isonitrile Necsa Nuclear Energy Corporation of (substance used in nuclear South Africa (South-African public medicine) entity carrying out R&D in the nuclear power field) MIMAUSA History and impact of uranium mines: summary and archives – NERSA “centrale nucléaire européenne à Programme for an inventory of neutrons rapides SA” company uranium mining sites (former operator of Superphénix)

MINEFI Ministry of the Economy, Finance NF French standard and Industry (from June 1997 to May 2007) nGy nanogray (thousand millionth of a gray) MINERVE research reactor (CEA – Cadarache) NII Nuclear Installations Inspectorate MIR inter-regional fuel warehouses (EDF (HSE – United Kingdom) – Bugey and Chinon) NISA Nuclear and Industrial Safety MMS mobile emergency equipment Agency (METI – Japan)

MoO3 molybdenum trioxide NNEMA National Nuclear Emergency Management Administration MOST Korean Ministry of Science and (China) Technology (South Korean regulatory body) NNR National Nuclear Regulator (South African regulatory body since 1999) MOX mixed uranium and plutonium oxide fuel NNSA National Nuclear Safety Administration (Chinese regulatory body) MPL maximum permitted levels (for radioactive contamination of NORM Naturally Occurring Radioactive foodstuffs or feedingstuffs) Materials

MRI magnetic resonance imaging NOx nitrogen oxides

MSNR Nuclear Safety and Radiation NPH spent fuel element unloading and Protection Mission interim storage facility (plant UP2 (MEEDDAT/DGPR) 800 – AREVA NC – La Hague)

MSR Molten Salt Reactor NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission (American regulatory body) mSv millisievert (thousandth of a sievert) NRR Office of Nuclear Reactor MWe megawatt electrical (unit of Regulation (NRC office in charge of electrical power) reactor safety)

434 NRU National Research Universal reactor ORSEC general plan organising the (Chalk River – Canada) emergency services at departmental, defence zone, or maritime NSC Nuclear Safety Commission prefecture level, should a disaster be declared by the State (Japanese regulatory body) OSART Operational Safety Review Team NSCI Nuclear Safety Cooperation (IAEA) Instrument (European Union) OSIRIS research reactor (CEA – Saclay) NSSG Nuclear Safety and Security Group (G8) OSPAR Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North- nSv nanosievert (thousand millionth of East Atlantic (signed in 1992 and a sievert) combining and updating the Oslo 1972 and Paris 1974 conventions) NSWG Nuclear Safety Working Group (G7) OSRDE Safety Radiation Protection Availability Environment NuPEER Nuclear Pressure Equipment Observatory (EDF) Expertise and Regulation (nuclear pressure vessel symposium) P’4 second series of 1300 MWe nuclear reactors (EDF) NUSSC Nuclear Safety Standards Committee (IAEA) P4 first series of 1300 MWe nuclear reactors (EDF) OA approved organisation for supervision PACA Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (region) PAHO Pan American Health Organization OASIS name of the ASN intranet PAI fire-fighting action plan OBT organically bound tritium PAP annual performance plan (within OECD Organisation for Economic the framework of the LOLF – Cooperation and Development document appended to the budget bill and for a given programme, OEEI EDF project to "Obtain Installations presenting in particular the in Exemplary Condition" objectives and the expected results of the various programme actions) OHF organisational and human factors PAREX post-accident experience feedback

OPECST Parliamentary Office for the PASEPRI action plan for monitoring patient Evaluation of Scientific and exposure to ionising radiation Technological Choices PBMR Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (4th OPPBTP Occupational Risk Prevention generation reactor project – South Organisation for the Building and Africa) Civil Engineering Industries PCC Command and Control Post (evaluation of consequences and OPS see JAR-OPS measures)

ORCADE Project set up by AREVA NC for PCD strategic management command decommissioning of the La Hague post installations PCL local command post (installation ORPHEE research reactor (CEA – Saclay) operation)

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PCM logistic management command post POPM organisational plan in medical radiation physics PCR Person Competent in Radiation protection POSEIDON irradiation facility (CEA – Saclay)

PCS Communal Disaster Contingency PPI off-site emergency plan (specific Plan emergency plan drawn up by the State addressing risks associated PDD development plan (ANDRA) with the existence and operation of specific installations or structures) PEGASE spent fuel and radioactive substances interim storage PRA Probabilistic Risk Assessment installation (CEA – Cadarache) PRECIS Programme for recovery of spent PET Positron Emission Tomography fuel elements stored in a fuel assembly block PET-CT Positron Emission Tomography combined with CT scanner PRER Radiation Protection, Environment and Risks Centre PETSCAN Scan PET camera coupled with a scanner PRI integrated radiological protection

PHARE Poland and Hungary: Action for the PRISME Eurodif project for intensive rinsing Restructuring of the Economy followed by venting (Programme of Community aid to the countries of Central and Eastern PROCEDE decommissioning research Europe) installation (CEA – Fontenay-aux- Roses) PHEBUS research reactor (CEA – Cadarache) PROSPER Peer Review of Operational Safety PHENIX fast neutron reactor (CEA – Performance Experience (organised Marcoule) by IAEA)

PHIL linear electron accelerator (CNRS – PSA PSA Peugeot Citroën group Orsay) PSAR preliminary safety analysis report PIRATOME defence plan designed to counter (BNI procedure) the malicious use or threatened malicious use of radioactive or PSRPM medical radiation physicist nuclear materials against people, the environment or property PSS specialised emergency plan

PLU local urban planning scheme PSS-TMR specialised emergency plan for the transport of radioactive materials PMSI Medicalised Programme for Information Systems PTB low operating range (PWR)

PNGMDR French National Radioactive PTD technical documentation series Material and Waste Management Plan (instituted by the 28 June PTR reactor cavity and spent fuel pit 2006 Programme Act on the cooling and treatment system sustainable management of (PWR) radioactive materials and waste) PUI On-site emergency plan (crisis PNSE French National Health management plan drawn up by a Environment Plan (to reduce the BNI licensee) effects of environmental damage on the health of the population) PuO2 plutonium oxide

436 PU-TMR emergency plan for the transport of RESERVOIR aqueous radiaoctive effluent storage radioactive materials installation (CEA – Saclay)

PV report, minutes of a meeting REX operating experience feedback

PWR Pressurised Water Reactor RFS basic safety rule

R&D Research and Development RGSE general surveillance and maintenance rules R7 vitrification facility (AREVA NC – La Hague) RHF high flux reactor (Institut Laue- Langevin – Grenoble) RADWASS Radioactive Waste Safety Standards (AIEA) RIA Radio Immunology Assay

RAMG Regulatory Assistance Management RIC Regulatory Information Conference Group (group set up by the (annual public conference by the European Commission to advise it United States regulatory body) on technical assistance requests from the nuclear regulators of RID Regulations concerning the Eastern European states) International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail RANET Response Assistance Network (response network to requests for RIFE Radioactivity in Food and the assistance in the case of a Environment (British report on radiological emergency – IAEA) radioactivity in the food chain and the environment) RAPSODIE former fast neutron experimental reactor (CEA – Cadarache) RIS safety injection system (PWR) RASSC RAdiation Safety Standards RIVM Dutch National Institute for Public Committee (IAEA) Health and the Environment RaSSIA Radiation Safety and Security Infrastructure Appraisal (IAEA) RJH Jules Horowitz reactor (irradiation reactor: CEA – Cadarache) RBE Relative Biological Efficiency RM2 former radiometallurgy laboratory RCC design and construction rules No. 2 (CEA – Fontenay-aux-Roses)

RCC-E RCC for electrical equipment RMT radioactive material transport

RCC-G RCC for civil engineering RNA ribonucleic acid

RCC-M RCC for mechanical equipment ROI industrial tool renewal

RCD waste recovery and packaging ROTONDE (la) solid waste management installation project (CEA – Cadarache) RCV chemical and volume control system (PWR) RPII Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland REC II Reception, Shipment and Monitoring unit for uranium RRA residual heat removal system (PWR) hexafluoride containers (Georges Besse II plant) RRI component cooling system (PWR)

REDT study and technological RSE-M rules for in-service monitoring of development reactor mechanical equipment

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RSN regulation concerning the safety of SEI irreversible effects threshold ships SEIVA Valduc information exchange RTE French Transmission System structure (Association created Operator around the CEA centre at Valduc)

RTGV steam generator tube rupture SEL lethal effects threshold

RTN Rostekhnadzor Russian Federation SEPTEN Design Department for Thermal and regulatory body Nuclear Projects (EDF/DIN)

RTRs Research and Test Reactors SET Société d’enrichissement du Tricastin (research reactors using fuel assemblies known as “aluminides”) SEVESO – “Seveso II” directive: name given to Council Directive 96/82/EC of 9 RTSG Radioactive Transport Study Group December 1996 on the control of (IAEA working group) major-accident hazards involving RTV main steam rupture dangerous substances (with reference to the site of a 1976 RUS Louis Pasteur University reactor accident in a chemical plant) (Strasbourg) – “Seveso” installation: installation RWMC Radioactive Waste Management subject to the “Seveso II” directive Committee (NEA) SFBMN French Society for Biophysics and SAFARI South African nuclear reactor Nuclear Medicine

SAMU French Emergency Medical Service SFEN French Nuclear Energy Society

SAPPRE Reflex Phase Population Alert SFMN French Nuclear Medicine and System Molecular Imaging Society

SARnet European Severe Accident Research SFPM French Society of Medical Physics network SFR – French Society of Radiology SATURNE former particle accelerator (CEA – Saclay) – sodium-cooled fast reactor

SCHAPI Central Hydrometeorology and SFRO French Society for Radiation Flood Prediction Support Oncology Department – MEEDDAT/DGPR SFRP French Radiation Protection Society SCR Radiation Protection Department SG Office of Administration (ASN) SCWR Supercritical Water Reactor

SD1, SD2… Sub-Department 1, 2, etc. (former SGDN French General Secretariat for entities of ASN headquarters before National Defence (until 2009) the reform of 2006 ; these acronyms still figure in the references of ASN SGDSN General Secretariat for Defence and memos written prior to that date ) National Security (since 2010)

SDIS Departmental Fire and Emergency SHFJ Service hospitalier Frédéric Joliot Response Department (CEA hospital service located in Orsay hospital – Essonne) SEC essential service water system (PWR) SI-ASN ASN Information System

438 SICN Société industrielle de combustible SNR Société Nouvelle du Radium (former nucléaire (Industrial Nuclear Fuel radium mining company which left Company) polluted sites after it closed) SIEVERT – equivalent dose and effective dose unit (Sv) SNRCU State Nuclear Regulatory Committee of Ukraine (Ukrainian regulatory – Computerized System for body) Assessing the Exposure to Cosmic Radiation during Air Transportation SOC Organised disposal of hulls (AREVA NC – La Hague) SIGIS Source Inventory Management Information System SOCATRI Société auxiliaire du Tricastin SILOE CEA research reactor (Grenoble) (company operating an AREVA- owned clean-up and uranium SILOETTE CEA research reactor (Grenoble) recovery installation at Bollène – Vaucluse) SIRCOM Communication Department (Ministry for the Economy, Finance SOCODEI Société pour le Conditionnement des and Industry) Déchets et Effluents Industriels SIRLaF International society of radiation (Company for industrial effluent biology in French language and waste treatment – EDF group)

SISE-Eau Environment-Water Health SOH socio-organizational and human Information System (analysis)

SISE-Habitat Environment-Habitat Health SOLEIL LURE Optimized Source of Information System Intermediary Energy Light SISERI Ionizing Radiation Exposure (synchrotron located in Saint Aubin, Monitoring Information System Essonne département)

SITA FD “ultimate” waste and polluted earth SOMANU Société de Maintenance Nucléaire processing and disposal company (Nuclear Maintenance Company (SITA Group) (AREVA group - Maubeuge)) SITOP Site Optimisation (SITOP project about organisation change at SOx sulphur oxides AREVA NC La Hague) SPECT single-photon emission computed SKI Swedish Nuclear Power tomography Inspectorate (Swedish regulatory body until 1 July 2008) SPECT-CT single-photon emission computed tomography combined with SL short-lived computed tomography SMP Sellafield MOX Plant (BNFL MOX fuel production plant in Sellafield) SPF fission products repository (SPF facilities – AREVA NC – La Hague) SNCS Société Normande de Conserve et de Stérilisation (Osmanville – Calvados) SPIN in-pile separation and incineration (Actinides Incineration Research SNM military nuclear system (either a weapon system designed or adapted Programme – CEA) to deploy a nuclear weapon, or a military vessel propelled by nuclear SPIRAL radioactive accelerated ion beam power) production source (GANIL – Caen)

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SPPPI Permanent Secretariat for the SUPERPHENIX Fast Breeder Reactor under Prevention of Industrial Pollution decommissioning (Creys-Malville – and Hazards (multipartite local Isère) discussion structures for industrial pollution and hazards) SUPPORT Facility effluent treatment and waste storage facility under dismantling SPRA French Army Radiological (CEA/Fontenay-aux-Roses) Protection Service Sv sievert (equivalent dose unit and SPS Super Proton Synchrotron (CERN – effective dose unit) Geneva) T7 vitrification facility (AREVA NC – SSE Safe Shutdown Earthquake La Hague)

SSI Swedish Radiation Protection TACIS Technical Assistance to the Authority (Swedish regulatory body Commonwealth of Independent until 1 July 2008) States (EU)

SSM Sträl Säkerhets Myndigheten TAR cooling tower (Swedish nuclear safety and radiation protection authority since TBq terabecquerel (million million 1 July 2008) becquerels)

STA Science and Technology Agency TDM CT scanner (Japan) TE Transfer and Sampling unit (AREVA STAR treatment, clean-out and NC – Tricastin) reconditioning station (CEA – Cadarache) TELEHYDRO network for continuous monitoring of waste water radioactivity in major STC Scientific and Technical Committee cities (IRSN) (EURATOM) TELERAY ambient radioactivity measurement STD waste treatment station network (IRSN)

STE – effluent treatment station TENORM Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials – technical operating specifications TEPCO Tokyo Electric Power Company STED effluent and waste treatment station (Japanese electric utility)

STEDS radioactive effluent and solid waste TGAP General Tax on Polluting Activities treatment station TID total indicative dose STEG Tunisian Company of Electricity and Gas TMD Transport of Dangerous Goods

STEL liquid effluent treatment station TMP Treatment of plutonium-bearing materials STELLA active liquid effluent treatment station project (CEA – Saclay) TN International subsidiary of AREVA NC specialising in the packaging, STUK Radiation and Nuclear Safety transport and interim storage of Authority (Finnish regulatory body) nuclear materials

SÚJB State Office for Nuclear Safety TNA sodium treatment installation (Na) (Czech regulatory body) (EDF – Creys-Malville – Isère)

440 TRANSAS Transport Safety Appraisal Service UO2(NO3)2 uranyl nitrate (IAEA) UOX uranium oxide TRANSSC TRANsport Safety Standards Committee (IAEA) UP2-400 1st spent fuel reprocessing plant (AREVA NC – La Hague) TRM Transport of radioactive materials UP2-800 spent fuel reprocessing plant TSN TSN Act: Act of 13 June 2006 on (AREVA NC – La Hague) transparency and security in the nuclear field UP3 spent fuel reprocessing plant (AREVA NC – La Hague) TU5 fuel cycle installation (COGEMA – Pierrelatte) URE enriched reprocessing uranium (fuel assemblies) TVO Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (Finnish electricity utility) USNRC see NRC

U3O8 uranium oxide (yellowcake) UTE Union Technique de l’Electricité

UAlx mixture of uranium and aluminium UTM Monazite treatment unit

UCD Alpha Waste Conditionning Unit UTO Central Technical Department (AREVA NC – La Hague) (EDF) UF uranium tetrafluoride 4 VATESI State Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate (Lithuanian regulatory UF uranium hexafluoride 6 body) ÚJD Nuclear Regulatory Authority of the VD ten-yearly outage Slovak Republic (Slovak regulatory body) VD1 1st ten-yearly outage UKEA United Kingdom Environment Agency (England and Wales) VD2 2nd ten-yearly outage

ULYSSE “Teaching” reactor (CEA – Saclay) VD3 3rd ten-yearly outage

UMo uranium-molybdenum alloy VD4 4th ten-yearly outage

UMoSnAl uranium-molybdenum-tin- VDS surveillance inspection visit aluminium alloy VHL Very High Level UN United Nations VHTR Very High Temperature Reactor UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe VLL very low level (waste)

UNGG former French gas-cooled reactor VP partial inspection outage technology W fuel cycle plant (AREVA NC – UNIE Operation Engineering Unit (EDF) Pierrelatte)

UNSCEAR United Nations Scientific WANO World Association of Nuclear Committee on the Effects of Atomic Operators Radiation WASSC Waste Safety Standards Committee UO2 uranium oxide (IAEA)

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WATRP Waste Management Assessment and XR X-ray Technical Review Program (IAEA) ZGDS solid waste management zone (CEA WENRA Western European Nuclear – Saclay) Regulators’ Association (extended in 2003 to all “nuclear” States that are ZGEL liquid waste management zone members of the European Union or (CEA – Saclay) currently negotiating membership) ZIIS Surface Installations Zone (for waste WGIP Working Group on Inspection disposal in deep geological Practices (NEA) formations)

WGWD Working Group on Waste and ZIRA zone of interest for in-depth studies Decommissioning (WENRA) (for waste disposal in deep geological formations) WHO World Health Organization (UN) ZPP Population protection zone WNTI World Nuclear Transport Institute ZS products and foodstuffs surveillance WPAQ Working Party on Atomic Questions zone (following a nuclear accident) (Council of the European Union) ZSR Enhanced surveillance zone www.asn.fr address of the Nuclear Safety Authority website

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