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Appendix D
Acronyms
AECL
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
ALMR
Advanced Liquid-Metal Reactor
ANDRA
French National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management
ATW
Accelerator Transmutation of Waste
BRWM
Board on Radioactive Waste Management
BSE
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Ci
Curie
CLAB
Central Interim Storage Facility for Spent Fuel (Sweden)
CNE
Commission National D'Evaluation (France)
DF
decontamination factor
DOE
U.S. Department of Energy
EC
European Commission
EDRAM
Working Group on Environmental Disposal of Radioactive Materials
EIA
Environmental Impact Assessment
EIS
Environmental Impact Statement
ENRESA
Spanish National Waste Management Company
EPA
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EU
European Union
feps
features, events, and processes
HADES
High Activity Disposal Experimental Site (Belgium)
HEU
highly enriched uranium
HLW
High-Level Waste
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IAEA
International Atomic Energy Agency
ICRP
International Commission on Radiation Protection
IFR
Integral Fast Reactor
ILW
Intermediate-Level Waste
INEEL
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (U.S.)
JNC
Japanese Nuclear Cycle Development Institute
KASAM
Swedish National Council for Nuclear Waste
LLW
Low-Level Waste
mt
metric ton
Nagra
National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (Switzerland)
NAS
U.S. National Academy of Sciences
NEA
Nuclear Energy Agency
NGO
nongovernmental organization
NIMBY
Not in my backyard
NRC
National Research Council
NPP
Nuclear Power Plant
NUMO
Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan
OECD
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
ONDRAF/NIRAS
National Agency for the Management of Radioactive Waste and Fissile Materials (Belgium)
P&T
partitioning and transmutation
PA
performance assessment
PAAG
Performance Assessment Advisory Group
PRACLAY
Preliminary Demonstration Test for Clay Disposal (Belgium)
RWMC
Radioactive Waste Management Committee
SFR
Final Repository for Radioactive Operations Waste (Sweden)
SKB
Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company
SKI
Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate
SNF
Spent Nuclear Fuel
SSI
National Institute of Radiation Protection (Sweden)
STATS
Nuclear Wastes: Technologies for Separations and Transmutation (NRC, 1996c report)
SWG
Seabed Working Group
URL
Under ground Research Laboratories
USNRC
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
WASSAC
Waste Safety Advisory Committee of the IAEA
WIPP
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
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