ANCCLI | Association nationale des comités et commissions locales d’information (National association of local information committees and commissions)
Andra | Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs (National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management)
ANR | Agence nationale de la recherche (National research agency)
ASN | Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (Nuclear Safety Authority)
ASND | Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire de Défense (Nuclear Defense Safety Authority)
BEGES | Bilan des émissions de gaz à effet de serre (GHG emissions calculation)
BelV | Belgian TSO – Belgian Nuclear Safety Agency
BfS | Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz – German Federal Office for Radiation Protection
BRGM | Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières (French geological survey)
CEA | Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission)
CEPN | Centre d’étude sur l’évaluation de la protection dans le domaine nucléaire (Nuclear Protection Assessment Study Center)
CIGÉO | Industrial geological disposal center for high-level and intermediate-level long-lived radioactive waste
CLI | Commission locale d’information (Local information commission)
CNDP | Commission nationale du débat public (National commission for public debate)
CNPE | Centrale nucléaire de production d’électricité (Nuclear Power Plant)
CNRS | Centre national de la recherche scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research)
CODEND | Steering committee for the nuclear defense expertise division
CODIRPA | Post-accident phase management committee
COR | IRSN nuclear safety and radiation protection research policy committee
CRIIRAD | Commission de recherche et d’information indépendantes sur la radioactivité (Commission for Independent Research and Information on radiation)
CSR | Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility
CTE | Comité technique EURATOM (EURATOM Technical Committee)
CWC | Chemical Weapons Convention
DOE | Department of Energy – USA
DRL | Diagnostic Reference Levels
DSND | Representative in charge of nuclear safety and radiation protection for defense-related activities and installations
EPR | Evolutionary power reactor – European pressurized water reactor
ERC | Emergency Response Center
ESA | European Space Agency
ETSON | European Technical Safety Organisations Network Eurados: European Radiation Dosimetry Group
Eurados | European Radiation Dosimetry Group
EURATOM | European Atomic Energy Community
GPEC | Gestion prévisionnelle des emplois et des compétences (Job & skills planning)
GRS | Gesellschaft für AnlagenUnd Reaktorsicherheit – Global Research for Safety
Hcéres | Haut Conseil de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur (High Council for the assessment of research and higher education)
HCTISN | Haut Comité pour la transparence et l’information sur la sécurité nucléaire (High Committee for transparency and information on nuclear safety)
HDR | Habilitation à diriger des recherches (Research director)
HEQ | High environmental quality
HFDS | Haut fonctionnaire de défense et de sécurité (Senior defense and security official)
HLW | High level waste (radioactive waste category)
IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency
ICRP | International Commission on Radiological Protection
IEC | Incident and Emergency Center – IAEA
IER | Institute of Environmental Radioactivity (Fukushima University)
Ifremer | French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
ILW-LL | Intermediate-level waste – long lived (radioactive waste category)
INSTN | Institut national des sciences et techniques nucléaires (French Nuclear Sciences and Techniques Institute)
IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IRSN Lab | IRSN innovation laboratory
ISFIN | Institut des sciences de la fusion et de l’instrumentation en environnement nucléaires (Institute for Fusion Sciences and Instrumentation in Nuclear Environments) (Aix-Marseille University)
ITEM | Institut méditerranéen pour la transition environnementale (Institute for Mediterranean Environmental Transition) (Aix-Marseille University)
LILW-SL | Low- and intermediate level waste – short-lived (radioactive waste category)
LOCA | Loss-of-coolant accident
LSCE | Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l’environnement (Laboratory for Sciences of Climate and Environment) (CNRS – CEA – Versailles-Saint-Quentin University)
MA | Marketing Authorization
MEF | Ministry of Economy and Finance in charge of non-proliferation
MNHN | Museum national d’histoire naturelle (National Museum of Natural History)
MOX | Mixture of plutonium oxide and uranium oxide – Nuclear fuel
MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MSF | Doctors without borders MWe: Megawatt electrical – Measurement unit for the electrical power produced
MWe | Megawatt electrical – Measurement unit for the electrical power produced
NARAC | National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center – USA
NEA/OECD | Nuclear Energy Agency/ Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
NGO | Non-Governmental Organization NNSA: National Nuclear Security Administration – USA
NNSA | National Nuclear Security Administration – USA
NRC | Nuclear Regulatory Commission – USA
ODISCÉ | Ouverture et impulsion du DIalogue avec la Société Civile sur l’Expertise (Opening up and encouraging dialogue with civil society on expertise)
ONR | Office for Nuclear Regulation – UK
PWR | Pressurized water reactor
RCR | Rapport de conclusion du réexamen périodique (periodic review conclusion report)
RP4-900 | Fourth periodic nuclear safety review of 900 MWe reactors
RP4-1,300 | Fourth periodic nuclear safety review of the reactors of the 1,300 MWe series
RSNR | Recherche en matière de sûreté et radioprotection (Nuclear safety and radiation protection research)
SCC | Stress corrosion cracking
SFRP | Société française de radioprotection (French radiation protection society)
SGDSN | Secrétariat général de la Défense et de la Sécurité nationale (Secretariat-General for National Defense and Security)
SHFDS | Service du haut fonctionnaire de défense et de sécurité (Office of the senior official for defense and security)
SISERI | Système d’information de la surveillance de l’exposition aux rayonnements ionisants (Information system for monitoring exposure to ionizing radiation)
SMR | Small Modular Reactors
SNRIU | State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine
SSBN | Ballistic missile submarine SSN: Nuclear attack submarine
SSTC | State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety – Ukraine
STUK | Säteilyturvakeskus – Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Authority, Finland
Sv | Sievert – unit of measurement for the impact of radioactivity on the human body
TSO | Technical Safety Organization
USIA | Unified System for Information Exchange in Incidents and Emergencies (IAEA)
VD4-900 | Fourth ten-year nuclear safety inspection of 900 MWe reactors
VVER | Vodo-Vodianoï Energuetitcheski Reaktor – Russian designed pressurized water reactor
WENRA | Western European Nuclear Regulators’ Association
