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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D Acronyms ." National Research Council. 2001. Disposition of High-Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel: The Continuing Societal and Technical Challenges. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10119.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D Acronyms ." National Research Council. 2001. Disposition of High-Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel: The Continuing Societal and Technical Challenges. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10119.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D Acronyms ." National Research Council. 2001. Disposition of High-Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel: The Continuing Societal and Technical Challenges. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10119.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D Acronyms ." National Research Council. 2001. Disposition of High-Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel: The Continuing Societal and Technical Challenges. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10119.
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Focused attention by world leaders is needed to address the substantial challenges posed by disposal of spent nuclear fuel from reactors and high-level radioactive waste from processing such fuel. The biggest challenges in achieving safe and secure storage and permanent waste disposal are societal, although technical challenges remain.

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