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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