Appendix B
Acronyms and Abbreviations
AMB
graphite-moderated, water-cooled reactors (early versions of the RBMK reactor)
ANL
Argonne National Laboratory
ATW
accelerator transmutation of waste
BN-600
liquid metal fast reactor
BWR
boiling-water reactor
Bq
becquerels, 1Bq=1 disintegration per second
Ci
curies, 1 Ci=3.7×1010 disintegrations per second =3.7×1010 becquerels
DOE
U.S. Department of Energy
DWPF
Defense Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site
EURT
Eastern Urals Radioactive Trail
FTB
floating technical base
GWe
gigawatts electric
HEU
highly-enriched uranium
HLW
high-level radioactive waste
HTGR
high-temperature gas reactor
ICPP
Idaho Chemical Processing Plant
INEEL
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
IPPE
Institute of Physics and Power Engineering
LLW
low-level radioactive waste
LMFBR
Liquid-metal fast breeder reactor
LMR
liquid-metal reactor
LRW
liquid radioactive waste
MCC
Mining and Chemical Combine, Minatom Ministry of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation
MOX
mixed oxide (uranium-plutonium)
MPC&A
materials protection, control, and accounting
MSRE
Molten Salt Reactor Experiment
MTHM
metric tons of heavy metal
MWd/kgHM
megawatt-days per kilogram of heavy metal
MWe
megawatts electric
MWth
megawatts thermal
NIIAR
Scientific Research Institute of Nuclear Reactors (Dmitrovgrad)
NIKIET
Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering (Moscow)
NPS
nuclear-powered ship
ORNL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PA “Mayak”
Production Association “Mayak”
PFS
Private Fuel Storage
PIMCA
The Priargunsky Industrial Mining-Chemical Association
PIS
the pilot-industrial site at Dmitrovgrad
PMDA
U.S.-Russia Plutonium Management and Disposi tion Agreement
PUREX
plutonium uranium extraction (chemical separation process)
PWR
pressurized-water reactor
R&D
research and development
RBMK
graphite-moderated, water-cooled reactor
REDOX
reduction-oxidation (chemical reactions)
RT-1
reprocessing facility at PA “Mayak” in Russia
RT-2
planned reprocessing facility at Zheleznogorsk in Russia
SCC
Siberian Chemical Combine (Tomsk-7 or Seversk)
SFA
spent fuel assembly
SNF
spent nuclear fuel
SPZ
sanitary-protection zone
SRS
Savannah River Site
SRW
solid radioactive waste
STB
shore technical base
TBP
tributyl phosphate
THOREX
thorium extraction (chemical separation process)
TMI
Three Mile Island (nuclear power plant in the United States)
TRUEX
Transuranic Extraction Process
TUK-104
spent fuel transport cask
VVER
Russian pressurized water reactor
WIPP
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
