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Suggested Citation:"O ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS." National Research Council. 1996. Nuclear Wastes: Technologies for Separations and Transmutation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4912.
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APPENDIX O
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

AB

Actinide-Burning

AEA

Atomic Energy Act (1984)

AEC

Atomic Energy Commission

ALMR

advanced liquid-metal reactor

ALWR

advanced light-water reactor

ANL

Argonne National Laboratory

ATW

accelerator transmutation of waste


BNL

Brookhaven National Laboratory

BWR

boiling water reactor


CAA

Clean Air Act

CCDF

complementary cumulative distribution function

CCL

coupled cavity linac

CEA

Council for Energy Awareness (U.S.)

CEC

Commission of the European Communities

CERCLA

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

CF

capacity factor

CMPO

carbonmoyl methyl phosphine oxide

CSFR

Czech and Slovak Federal Republic

CTH

Chalmers University of Technology

CURE

Clean Use of Reactor Energy


DF

decontamination factor

DHLW

Defense High-Level Waste

DMDBTDMA

dimethyl dibutyl tetradecyl methyl amide

DOE

Department of Energy

DOE/NE

Department of Energy/Nuclear Energy Office

DS

double-shell (adj.)

DTL

drift tube linac

DWPF

Defense Waste Processing Facility (Savannah)


ECU

European currency units

EIA

Energy Information Administration

EPA

Environmental Protection Agency

EPRI

Electric Power Research Institute

ERA

Energy Reorganization Act

ERDA

Energy Research and Development Administration


FEIS

Final Environmental Impact Statement

FFTF

Fast Flux Test Facility

Suggested Citation:"O ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS." National Research Council. 1996. Nuclear Wastes: Technologies for Separations and Transmutation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4912.
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FP

Fission Product

FWPAC

Federal Water Pollution Control Act


GCDF

Greater Confinement Disposal Facility

GE

General Electric

GESMO

Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Mixed Oxide

GTCC

Greater-Than-Class-C


HEU

high enriched uranium

HFIR

high flux isotope reactor

HLW

high-level waste

HM

heavy metal

HSWA

Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984

HTGR

high-temperature gas-cooled reactor

HWVP

Hanford waste vitrification plant

HWR

heavy-water reactor


IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency (U.N.)

ICRP

International Commission on Radiation Protection

IFR

integral fast reactor

ILW

intermediate-level waste

INEL

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

INFCE

International Fuel Cycle Evaluation


LAMPF

Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility

LAMPRE

Los Alamos Molten Plutonium Reactor Experiment

LANL

Los Alamos National Laboratory

LEU

low enriched uranium

LGR

liquid graphite reactor

LLW

low-level wastes

LMFBR

liquid-metal fast breeder reactor

LMFR

liquid-metal fast reactors

LMR

liquid-metal reactor

LWR

light-water reactor


MA

minor actinide

MGD

Mined Geologic Disposal

MOX

mixed oxide

MRS

monitored retrieval storage

MSRE

Molten Salt Reactor Experiment

MTHM

metric tons of heavy metal

MTIHM

metric tons of initial heavy metal

MTU

metric tons uranium

MUF

material unaccounted for

MWD/MT

megawatt-days per metric tons


NAS

National Academy of Sciences

NCRP

National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements

NEA

Nuclear Energy Agency

Suggested Citation:"O ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS." National Research Council. 1996. Nuclear Wastes: Technologies for Separations and Transmutation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4912.
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NEPA

National Environmental Policy Act

NPDES

National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

NPT

Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (1978)

NRC

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

NWPA

Nuclear Waste Policy Act (1982)

NWPAA

Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act (1987)


OECD

Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development

OMEGA

Option Making Extra Gains from Actinides and Fission Products (Japan)

ORNL

Oak Ridge National Laboratory


P-T

Partitioning and Transmutation

PBR

particle bed reactor

PNL

Pacific Northwest Laboratory

PRA

probabilistic risk assessment

PRISM

power reactor, innovative, small module

PSI

The Paul Scherrer Institute

PUREX

plutonium and uranium recovery by extraction

PWR

pressurized water reactor


RCRA

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

REDOX

oxidation-reduction chemistry process

RF

radio frequency

RFQ

radio frequency quadrop


S&T

separations and transmutation

SAF

secure automated fabrication

SAFR

sodium advanced fast reactor

SAR

Safety Analysis Report

SARA

Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986

SCP

Site Characterization Plan

SRS

Savannah River Site

SS

single-shell

STATS

Committee on Separations and Transmutation Systems

SWU

separative work unit


TBP

tributyl phosphate

THORP

Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (U.K.)

TRU

transuranic (wastes/elements)

TRUEX

transuranic extraction


WHC

Westinghouse Hanford Company

WIPP

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Suggested Citation:"O ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS." National Research Council. 1996. Nuclear Wastes: Technologies for Separations and Transmutation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/4912.
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Disposal of radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production and power generation has caused public outcry and political consternation. Nuclear Wastes presents a critical review of some waste management and disposal alternatives to the current national policy of direct disposal of light water reactor spent fuel. The book offers clearcut conclusions for what the nation should do today and what solutions should be explored for tomorrow.

The committee examines the currently used "once-through" fuel cycle versus different alternatives of separations and transmutation technology systems, by which hazardous radionuclides are converted to nuclides that are either stable or radioactive with short half-lives. The volume provides detailed findings and conclusions about the status and feasibility of plutonium extraction and more advanced separations technologies, as well as three principal transmutation concepts for commercial reactor spent fuel.

The book discusses nuclear proliferation; the U.S. nuclear regulatory structure; issues of health, safety and transportation; the proposed sale of electrical energy as a means of paying for the transmutation system; and other key issues.

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