ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

A

AdSec

Advisory Group on Nuclear Security within the IAEA.

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency.

Anccli

Association nationale des comités et commissions locales d’information (French National Association of Local Information Committees and Commissions).

ASEAN

Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

ASN

Autorité de sûreté nucléaire (French Nuclear Safety Authority).

ASTEC

Accident Source Term Evaluation Code.

B

BEERAD

Assessment of the effects of ionizing radiation on bees.

BU-DCI

Business Unit – International Business Development (Développement commercial à l’International).

C

CEA

Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission).

CEA/DAM

Directorate of Military Applications of the CEA.

CIP

CABRI international program.

Cli

Commission locale d’information (Local Information Commission).

Clis

Comité local d’information et de suivi (Local information and monitoring committee).

CPDP

Commission particulière du débat public (Special National Commission for Public Debate).

CSR

Corporate Social Responsibility.

CWC

Chemical Weapons Convention.

D

D3NSI

Direction déléguée au développement numérique et aux systèmes d’information de l’IRSN (IRSN Directorate for Digital Development and Information Systems).

DECLICS

Dialogues entre chercheurs et lycéens pour les intéresser à la construction des savoirs (Dialogs between researchers and high school students to get them interested in building knowledge).

DGA

Direction générale de l’armement (French Government Defense procurement and technology agency).

E

EPR

Evolutionary power reactor / European pressurized water reactor.

ERC

IRSN Emergency Response Center.

ESARDA

European Safeguards Research and Development Association.

ETSON

European Technical Support Organizations Network.

EURAD

European Joint Program on Radioactive Waste Management.

G

GPEC

Gestion prévisionnelle des emplois et des compétences (Strategic workforce planning).

GRS

Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit / GRS – Company for the safety of nuclear facilities and reactors in Germany.

H

HCTISN

Haut Comité pour la transparence et l’information sur la sécurité nucléaire (High Committee for Transparency and Information on Nuclear Safety).

HEQ

High environmental quality.

I

IER

Institute of Environmental Radioactivity (Fukushima University).

INCa

Institut National du Cancer (French National Cancer Institute).

INRAE

Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement (French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment).

INMM

Institute for Nuclear Materials Management.

INSA

Institut national des sciences appliquées (French National Institute of Applied Sciences).

INSAG

International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group.

INSTN

Institut national des sciences et techniques nucléaires (French Nuclear Sciences and Technology Institute).

IRiMa

Integrated Risk Management for making companies more resilient in the age of global change.

J

JAEA

Japanese Atomic Energy Agency.

JRC

Joint Research Center of the European Commission.

M

MACUMBA

Moyens d’essais Appliqués à l’étude du Confinement assuré par des Murs en Béton Armé (Test Means Applied to the Study of Containment by Reinforced Concrete Walls).

MODATS

MOnitoring equipment and DAta Treatment for Safe repository operation and staged closure.

MORAD

MOdeling of RAdionuclide Dispersion.

N

NRA

Nuclear Regulation Authority / Japan.

NRC

Nuclear Regulatory Commission / USA.

NUS/SNRSI

Singapore Nuclear Research and Safety Initiative of the National University of Singapore.

NUT

Nagaoka University of Technology.

O

OPCW

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

OPECST

Office parlementaire d’évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques (French Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technology Choices).

ORRCH-IDEeS

Orientation pluraliste de la recherche sur les risques chroniques, initiatives sur le territoire de Dunkerque pour l’environnement et la santé
(Pluralist research focus on chronic risks, initiatives in the Dunkirk area for the environment and health).

P

PAA

Polish National Atomic Energy Agency.

PALLAS

Plateforme pluridisciplinaire de surveillance dans le cadre d’alternatives au stockage (Multidisciplinary monitoring platform for disposal alternatives).

PASTIS

Passive Systems Thermalhydraulic Investigations for Safety.

PNGMDR

Plan national de gestion des matières et déchets radioactifs (French National Radioactive Materials and Waste Management Plan).

PPI

Plan particulier d’intervention (Special intervention plan).

Q

QVCT

Qualité de vie et des conditions de travail (Quality of life and working conditions).

R

RSNR

Call for research projects on nuclear safety and radiation protection.

S

SGDSN

Secrétariat général de la défense et de la sécurité nationale (French Secretariat-General for National Defense and Security).

SISERI

Système d’information de la surveillance de l’exposition aux rayonnements ionisants (Information system for monitoring exposure to ionizing radiation).

SITEX network

Sustainable network for independent technical expertise.

SMR

Small Modular Reactor.

SNLE 3G

3rd-generation nuclear ballistic missile submarine.

SPF

Santé Publique France (Public Health France).

SPOS

Service des politiques d’ouverture à la société de l’IRSN (IRSN outreach policies department).

SSTC NRS

State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety / Ukraine.

T

TSO

Technical Safety Organization.

U

UNGG

Uranium natural graphite gas.

UTC

Compiègne University of Technology.

V

VVER

Russian acronym for pressurized water reactor.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

RADIATION PROTECTION
Protecting the health
of people and
the environment

360°

VISION

At the start of a decade of major
challenges for safety appraisals

CRISIS AND POST-ACCIDENT
Mobilizing teams and
expanding capacities
for action