ADS | Accelerator-driven system |
AECL | Atomic Energy of Canada Limited |
AFIP | ATR full-size plate in center flux trap position |
ANL | Argonne National Laboratory |
ATR | Advanced Test Reactor |
ATR-C | Advanced Test Reactor Critical Facility |
ATR NSUF | Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility |
BWXT | Babcock and Wilcox Technologies |
BR2 | Belgian Reactor II (SCK·CEN, Mol, Belgium) |
CA | Critical assemblies |
CEA | Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives |
CEFR | China Experimental Fast Reactor |
CERCA | Compagnie pour l’Etude et la Réalisation de Combustibles Atomiques |
CFR | Code of Federal Regulations |
CIAE | China Institute of Atomic Energy |
cm | Centimeter |
CNEA | Argentine National Commission of Atomic Energy |
CNL | Canadian Nuclear Laboratories |
CP-1 | Chicago Pile-1 |
DOE | U.S. Department of Energy |
DPRK | Democratic People’s Republic of Korea |
EPA | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
ESS | European Spallation Source |
FD | Fuel development |
FDP | Fuel Data Provider (see Appendix E) |
FFA | Federal facility agreement |
FFC | Fuel fabrication capability |
FMWG | Fissile Material Working Group |
FNR | Ford Nuclear Reactor |
FP-1 and FP-2 | Full-sized fuel plate test-1 and test-2 |
FRM-II | Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-II |
FY | Fiscal year |
GE | General Electric |
GE-NTR | General Electric Nuclear Test Reactor |
GTRI | Global Threat Reduction Initiative |
GTRP | Global Threat Reduction Program |
HAMP | HANARO Mini-Plate |
HANARO | High-Flux Advanced Neutron Application Reactor (Deokjin-dong) |
HERACLES | Highly enriched European Reactors Action for their Conversion in a Low Enriched Solution |
HEU | Highly enriched uranium |
HFIR | High Flux Isotope Reactor (Oak Ridge) |
HFR | High Flux Reactor (Petten) |
HPRR | High performance research reactor |
HT3R | High-Temperature Teaching & Test Reactor |
IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
IB | Ice breaker |
IBR2M | Induced Bed Reactor–2M |
ID | Identification (See Appendix F) |
IGORR | International Group on Research Reactors |
IL | Interaction layer |
ILL | Institut Laue-Langevin (Grenoble) |
in. | Inch |
INFCE | International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation |
INL | Idaho National Laboratory |
INVO | Iraq Nuclear Verification Office |
IPFM | International Panel on Fissile Materials |
IRE | Institute for Radio Elements |
IREN | Intense Resonance Neutron pulsed source |
IRIS | International Reactor Innovative and Secure |
IRT | In-Reactor Thimble (Fast Test Reactor)/Iraqi Reactor |
ISR | Independent strategic review |
IVV | Water-cooled, water-moderated (Russian acronym) |
JHR | Jules Horowitz Reactor (CEA-Cadarache) |
JMTR | Japan Materials Testing Reactor (Oarai) |
JSC “SSC RIAR” | Joint Stock Company State Scientific Center—Research Institute of Atomic Reactors |
KAERI | Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute |
kg | Kilogram |
KJRR | Ki-Jang Research Reactor |
km/s | Kilometer per second |
KUCA | Kyoto University Critical Assembly |
kW | Kilowatt |
LEONIDAS | Low Enriched Option Network Initiative for the Development of a European Appropriate Solution |
LEU | Low enriched uranium |
LITR | Low-intensity testing reactor |
µm | Micrometer |
M3 | Material Management and Minimization (“M-cubed”), also MMM |
MBIR | Multipurpose sodium-cooled fast neutron research reactor (Russian acronym) |
MIR | Modernized international reactor |
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
MITR-II | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor (Boston) |
MNSR | Miniature Neutron Source Reactor |
MOX | Mixed oxide fuel |
MP | Mini-plate |
MTR | Materials test reactors |
MURR | University of Missouri Research Reactor (Columbia) |
MW | Megawatts |
MYRRHA | Multi-purpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications |
N/A | Not applicable |
NAA | Neutron activation analysis |
NAS | National Academy of Sciences, now the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
NBSR | Neutron Beam Split-core Reactor |
NCBJ | Narodowe Centrum Badan Jadrowych (National Center for Nuclear Research) |
NCCP | Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant |
NCNR | NIST Center for Neutron Research |
NIKIET | Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering (Nauchno-issledovatel’skii institut energotekhniki) |
NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NNSA | National Nuclear Security Administration |
NRG | Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group |
NSC | National Security Council |
NSS | Nuclear Security Summit |
NSUF | Nuclear Science User Facility |
NTD | Neutron transmutation doping |
NTI | Nuclear Threat Initiative |
NV | Naval reactor |
OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
ORR | Oak Ridge Research Reactor |
OSTP | Office of Science and Technology Policy |
PIE | Post-irradiation examination |
PNNL | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
PR | Pulsed reactor |
PVD | Physical vapor deposition |
RAS | Russian Academy of Sciences |
RERTR | Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors |
RHF | Réacteur à Haut Flux (Grenoble) |
RIAR | Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (Dimitrovgrad) |
RR | Research reactor |
RRDB | Research Reactor Database |
RRFM | European Research Reactor and Fuel Management Conference |
RRRFR | Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return (Program) |
SAFARI | South African Fundamental Atomic Research Installation |
SCK·CEN | Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie·Centre d’Etudes Nucléaire |
SLOWPOKE | Safe Low-Power Kritical Experiment |
SNS | Spallation Neutron Source |
SS | Steady-state reactor |
TAPIRO | TAratura PIla Rapida a potenza 0 |
TEM | Transmission electron microscopy |
TOUTATIS | Traitement Optimisé de l’Uranium et Thermique Améliorée pour une Technologie Intégrant la Sûreté |
TREAT | Transient Reactor Test Facility |
TRIGA | Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics |
TUM | Technische Universität München |
U.K. | United Kingdom |
UM | University of Michigan |
USNRC | U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
U.S. | United States |
USHPRR | U.S. high performance research reactor |
VENUS | Vulcan Experimental Nuclear Study |
VIC | Vienna International Center |
VNIIEF | All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (Vsesoyuznyy nauchnoissledovatel’skiy institut eksperimental’noy fiziki) |
vol. | Volume |
W | Watt |
W-HEU | Weapon-grade highly enriched uranium |
wt | Weight |
Y-12 | Y-12 National Security Complex |
YTC | Years to conversion |
ZPTF | Zero Power Test Facility |
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