APPENDIX C Acronyms and Abbreviations
AEC
Atomic Energy Commission
AECL
Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd.
AGS
alternating gradient synchrotron
AMS
accelerator mass spectrometry
ANL
Argonne National Laboratory
ANS
Advanced Neutron Source
AUI
Associated Universities, Inc.
AVLIS
atomic vapor laser isotope separation
BLIP
Brookhaven Linac Isotope Production Facility
BNL
Brookhaven National Laboratory
CEBAF
Continuous-Electron-Beam Accelerator Facility
CFR
Code of Federal Regulations
Ci
curie
CRADA
cooperative research and development agreement
DOE
U.S. Department of Energy
ERDA
Energy Research and Development Agency
FDA
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FTC
U.S. Federal Trade Commission
GAO
U.S. General Accounting Office
IPDP
Isotope Production and Distribution Program
IRE
Institute National des Radioéléments
KeV
thousand electron volts
LAMPF
Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility
LANL
Los Alamos National Laboratory
LBL
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Linac
linear accelerator
LLNL
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LLRW
low-level radioactive waste
MeV
million electron volts
MURR
University of Missouri Research Reactor
MW
megawatts
NBTF
National Biomedical Tracer Facility
NIP
National Isotope Program
NMR
nuclear magnetic resonance
NRC
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NSF
National Science Foundation
OHER
U.S. DOE Office of Health and Environmental Research
ORNL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PET
positron-emission tomography
RCC
Radiochemical Company (division of AECL)
SPECT
single-photon emission computed tomography
SUNY-SB
State University of New York - Stony Brook
Sv
Sievert
TRIUMF
Tri-University Meson Facility
VAC
vacuum arc centrifuge