Glossary
NEA
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
AFSSAPS
Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des produits
santé (
French Agency for the Safety of Health
Products
)
IAEA
International Atomic Energy Agency
ANCLI and
ANCCLI
Association Nationale des Commissions (et des
Comités) Locales d’Information
(French National
Association of Local Information Commissions (and
Committees))
ANDRA
Agence Nationale pour la gestion des Déchets
Radioactifs (
French National Radioactive Waste
Management Agency
)
APEC
Atelier Pour l’Entreposage du Combustible de
Superphénix (Superphénix Fuel Storage Facility)
APM
Atelier pilote de Marcoule (procédé de vitrification)
(Marcoule Pilot Facility (vitrification process))
ARS
Agence
Régionale
de
Santé
(
Regional
Health
Agency
)
ASN
Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (
French Nuclear Safety
Authority
)
Radioactive
cleanup
All operations aimed at reducing the radioactivity of
a facility or site, particularly by decontamination or
by the removal of materials.
Fuel assembly
Nuclear fuel component consisting of fuel rods held
in place by a metal frame
ARENH
Regulated Access to Historic Nuclear Energy (tariff)
ASTRID
Advanced sodium technological reactor for industrial
demonstration (fourth-generation programme)
Becquerel (Bq)
Unit of measure of nuclear activity (1 Bq = one
nucleus decay per second)
C3P
Full Cost Accounting
CAS
Conseil d’Analyse Stratégique (
Strategic Analysis
Council
)
CCE
Current Economic Cost
CEA
Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux énergies
alternatives (
French Alternative Energies and Atomic
Energy Commission
)
CEFEN
Comité d’Expertise Financière des Engagements
Nucléaires
(
Nuclear
Commitments
Financial
Expertise Committee
)
CLI
Commission
Locale
d’Information
(
Local
Information Committee
)
CNEF
Commission Nationale d'Evaluation du Financement
des charges de démantèlement des installations
nucléaires de base et de gestion des combustibles
usés et des déchets radioactifs (
National Committee
for the Evaluation of Funding for the costs of
dismantling basic nuclear facilities and handling
used fuel and radioactive waste
)
CRE
Commission de Régulation de l’Energie (
French
Energy Regulatory Commission
)
Criticality
The level reached when the neutron production rate
by fission is equal to the rate at which neutrons
disappear through absorption and leakage to the
outside
CSEN
Comité de Suivi des Engagements Nucléaires
(
Nuclear Commitments Monitoring Committee
)
Curie
Former unit of measure of nuclear activity (1 Curie =
37 GBq)
Deconstruction
According to EDF: all operations carried out to
achieve complete removal of a nuclear power plant
(including final shutdown operations)
Dismantling
The stages following final shutdown of a nuclear
power plant through to its decommissioning
DGEC
Direction Générale de l’Energie et du Climat
(
General Directorate for Energy and Climate
)
DGEMP
Direction Générale de l’Energie et des Matières
Premières (ancien nom de la DGEC) (
General
Directorate for Energy and Raw Materials (now the
DGEC
))
DGPR
Direction Générale de Prévention des Risques
(
General Directorate for Risk Prevention
)
DGRI
Direction
Générale
de
la
Recherche
et
de
l’Innovation (
General Directorate for Research and
Innovation
)
DGSCGC
Direction Générale de la Sécurité Civile et de la
Gestion des Crises (
General Directorate for Civil
Protection and Crisis Management
)
DGSNR
Direction Générale de la Sûreté Nucléaire et de la
Radioprotection (
General Directorate for Nuclear
GLOSSARY
3
Safety and Radiation Protection
)
DOE
Department Of Energy (United States)
DREAL
Direction
Régionale
de
l'Environnement,
de
l’Aménagement
et
du
Logement
(
Regional
Directorate for the Environment, Town and Country
Planning and Housing
)
DSC
Direction de la Sécurité Civile (
Directorate for Civil
Protection
)
SDR
Special Drawing Right
ECS
Evaluation
Complémentaire
de
Sureté
(Complementary Safety Assessment)
EDF
Electricité De France
EPR
European Pressurized Reactor
EPRUS
Etablissement de Préparation et de Réponse aux
Urgences
Sanitaires
(
Health
Emergency
Preparedness and Response Agency
)
FTE
Full-Time Equivalent (used to measure staffing
levels)
EURATOM
European Atomic Energy Community
LLW
Low-Level Waste (radioactive waste)
FARN
Force d’Action Rapide Nucléaire (
Nuclear Rapid
Response Force
)
Fission
Splitting of a heavy nucleus – generally on impact
with
a
neutron
–
into
two
smaller
nuclei,
accompanied by the emission of neutrons, radiation
and the release of a considerable amount of heat.
GIF
Generation IV International Forum
GW
Gigawatt symbol unit of power. 1 gigawatt = 1
million kilowatts.
GWh
Gigawatt hour: unit of energy corresponding to
1 million kilowatt hours.
HLW
High-Level Waste (radioactive waste)
HCTISN
Haut Comité à la Transparence et à l’Information sur
la Sécurité Nucléaire (
French High Committee for
Transparency aAnd Information on Nuclear Safety
)
HFDS
Haut Fonctionnaire de Défense et de Sécurité (
Senior
Defence and Security Official
)
IAS
International Accounting Standards
ICEDA
Installation de Conditionnement et d’Entreposage de
Déchets
Activés
(Bugey)
(Activated
Waste
Conditioning and Storage Facility (Bugey))
ICPE
Installations
Classées
pour
la
Protection
de
l'Environnement
(Environmentally
regulated
facilities)
IFRS
International Financial Reporting Standards
INB
Installation Nucléaire de
Base
(Basic
Nuclear
Installation)
INSERM
Institut national de la Santé et de la Recherche
Médicale (
French National Institute of Health and
Medical Research
)
IPSN
Institut de Protection de Sureté Nucléaire (
Institute
for Nuclear Safety and Protection
)
IRSN
Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire
(
French Institute for Radiological Protection and
Nuclear Safety
)
ITER
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
(nuclear fusion research programme)
kW (kilowatt)
Kilowatt symbol, corresponding to 1,000 Watts
kWh
Kilowatt hour symbol; unit of measurement of work
and energy corresponding to 1,000 Watt hours
LFI
Loi de Finances Initiale (Initial Budget Act)
LFR
Loi de Finances Rectificative (Revised Budget Act)
ILW
Intermediate-Level Waste (radioactive waste)
FS
Final Shutdown
CAPM
Capital Asset Pricing Model
MEDDTL
Ministère de l’Ecologie, du Développement Durable,
des Transports et du Logement (
French Ministry of
Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and
Housing
)
MESR
Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la
Recherche (
French Ministry of Higher Education
and Research
)
Millisievert
(mSv)
A thousandth of a sievert (the average annual
background
exposure
dose
in
France
is
2.4
mSv/person)
HM
Heavy metal, i.e. all the uranium and plutonium
isotopes contained in the fuel to be reprocessed
MOX (mixed
oxide fuel)
Mix of uranium and plutonium oxides to be used to
produce nuclear fuel
IC
Industrial Commissioning
MSNR
Mission
de
la
Sureté
Nucléaire
et
de
la
Radioprotection de la DGPR (
Nuclear Safety and
Radiation Protection Mission
)
MW
Megawatt symbol. Unit of power. 1 megawatt =
GLOSSARY
5
1,000 kilowatts.
MWh
Megawatt hour symbol. Unit of energy. 1 MWh =
1000 kWh.
NOME
New Organization of the Electricity Market (NOME
Act
of 7 December 2010)
CBRN
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear
NRC
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
OECD
Organisation
for
Economic
Co-operation
and
Development
OPECST
Office
Parlementaire
d’Evaluation
des
Choix
Scientifiques et Techniques (
French Parliamentary
Office
for
the
Evaluation
of
Scientific
and
Technological Choices
)
OPRI
Office de Protection contre les Rayonnements
Ionisants (
Office for Protection against Ionizing
Radiation
)
Radioactive
half-life
Time taken for half of the atoms in a sample of
radioactive substances to naturally decay
PLF
Projet de Loi de Finances (
French budget bill
)
GNP
Gross National Product
PNGMDR
Plan National de Gestion des Matières et des Déchets
Radioactifs (
French National Radioactive Materials
and Waste Management Plan
)
PPI
Multi-year investment programme
P
u
Plutonium
EPP
On-site Emergency Plan
PWR
Pressurized water reactor
Radioactivity
The property due to which certain bodies emit
radiation and change into other bodies: radioactivity
is characterized by the radiation emitted and the rate
of transformation
RCD
Waste Recovery and Conditioning
TPNL
Third Party Nuclear Liability
RCEN
Civil liability for nuclear damage
RCTN
Nuclear Transport Civil Liability
PWR
Pressurized Water Reactor
HFR
High Flux Reactor
RTE
Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (French national
grid company)
SDIS
Service Départemental d’Incendie et de Secours
(“Département” fire and emergency services
)
Sievert (Sv)
Unit of measure of dose equivalent, i.e. the quantity
of ionizing radiation energy absorbed by one kilo of
living matter
VLLW
Very Low Level Waste (radioactive waste)
TSN
French Nuclear Security and Transparency Act
(13
June 2006)
TWh
Terawatt hour symbol. Unit of energy corresponding
to 1 billion kWh.
DU
Depleted uranium
UNE
Enriched Natural Uranium
GMGC
Graphite-Moderated Gas-Cooled (second generation
reactor)
UP1 and 2
Marcoule reprocessing plants
ERU
Enriched Recycled Uranium
RU
Recycled uranium
SL
Short Lived (radioactive waste)
LL
Long Lived (radioactive waste)
MS
Marketable Security
WACC
Weighted Average Cost of Capital