Appendix G
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Am | americium |
APCS | Abandonment of Panel Closures in the South |
ARIES | Advanced Recovery and Integrated Extraction System |
ATWIR | Annual Transuranic Waste Inventory Report |
AU-50 | Director of the Office of Security |
B4C | boron carbide |
BRAGFLO | brine and gas flow modeling code |
BRC | Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future |
C&C | Consultation and Cooperation |
CAB | Citizens Advisory Board (Savannah River Site) |
CBFO | see DOE-CBFO |
CCA | Compliance Certification Application |
CCC | criticality control container; criticality control component |
CCDF | complementary cumulative distribution function |
CCO | criticality control overpack |
CD | Critical Decision (e.g., CD-0 for Critical Decision 0) |
CDF | cumulative distribution function |
CFR | Code of Federal Regulations |
CH | contact-handled |
CH-TRU | contact-handled transuranic |
Ci | curie |
CID | Comprehensive Inventory Database |
CRA | Compliance Recertification Application |
CVSA | Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance |
CY | calendar year |
DBFT | Deep Borehole Field Test |
DOD | Department of Defense |
DOE | Department of Energy |
DOE-CBFO | Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management’s Carlsbad Field Office |
DOE-CEPE | Department of Energy’s Office of Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation |
DOE-EM | Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management |
DOE-NNSA | Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration |
DMO | direct metal oxidation |
DNFSB | Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board |
DNN | Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation |
DOS | Department of State |
DOT | Department of Transportation |
DSA | documented safety analysis |
DSP | diluted surplus plutonium |
DSP-TRU | diluted surplus plutonium transuranic |
DWPF | Defense Waste Processing Facility |
EEG | Environmental Evaluation Group |
EIS | environmental impact statement |
EM | see DOE-EM |
EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
FEP | features, events, and processes |
FGA | flammable gas analysis |
FGE | fissile gram equivalent |
FPEIS | final programmatic environmental impact statement |
FTE | full-time equivalent |
FY | fiscal year |
g | gram |
GAO | Government Accountability Office |
GSP | graded security protection |
GTCC | Greater-Than-Class-C |
HalfPACT | half package transporter |
HB-Line | chemical processing facility at Savannah River Site |
HLW | high level radioactive waste |
HQ | headquarters |
HRCQ | highway route controlled quantities |
HWDU | hazardous waste disposal unit |
HWFP | Hazardous Waste Facility Permit |
IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
IART | Incident/Accident Response Team |
IDA | Institute for Defense Analyses |
INL | Idaho National Laboratory |
INV | inventory report |
IPFM | International Panel on Fissile Materials |
K | potassium |
KAC | K-Area Complex |
KIS | K Interim Surveillance |
LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
LCCE | Life-Cycle Cost Estimate |
LD | lethal dose |
LWA | Land Withdrawal Act (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) |
LWR | light-water reactor |
M3 | Material Management and Minimization (an office within the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration) |
m3 | cubic meter |
MAR | Material at Risk |
MC&A | material control and accountability |
MCL | maximum contaminant level |
MD | materials disposition |
MFFF | Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility |
MOA | memorandum of agreement |
MOX | mixed oxide |
MPa | megapascal |
MRRC | Materials Risk Review Committee |
MT | metric tons |
MTHM | metric tons of heavy metal |
NA-10 | Office of Defense Programs (within the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration) |
NA-80 | Office of Defense Programs Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation (within the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration) |
NDA | non-destructive assay |
NDAA | National Defense Authorization Act |
NEPA | National Environmental Policy Act |
NMC&A | nuclear material control and accountability |
NMED | New Mexico Environment Department |
NNSA | see DOE-NNSA |
NOI | notice of intent |
Np | neptunium |
NRC | National Research Council |
NTP | National TRU Program |
NUREG | Nuclear Regulatory Report |
NWP | Nuclear Waste Partnership LLC |
NWPA | Nuclear Waste Policy Act |
OMB | Office of Management and Budget |
ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
OST | Department of Energy’s Office of Secure Transportation |
PA | performance assessment |
PAIR | performance assessment inventory report |
PARO | Public Access Records Office |
PCN | planned change notice |
PCR | planned change request |
probability density function | |
PE-Ci | plutonium equivalent curies |
PEIS | programmatic environmental impact statement |
PFLOTRAN | petascale reactive multiphase flow and multicomponent transport code |
PHMSA | Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Association |
PMDA | Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement |
PMR | permit modification request |
POC | pipe overpack container |
PRA | performance risk assessment |
Pu | plutonium |
Pub. L. | public law |
QA | quality assurance |
RCRA | Resource Conservation and Recovery Act |
RH | remote-handled |
RH-TRU | remote-handled transuranic |
ROAR | Risk and Opportunity Analysis Report |
ROD | record of decision |
ROMP | risks and opportunities management plan |
RTR | real-time radiography |
SEIS | supplemental environmental impact statement |
SNL | Sandia National Laboratories |
SNM | special nuclear material |
SPD | surplus plutonium disposition |
SPD INV | surplus plutonium disposition inventory report |
SRNS | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC |
SRS | Savannah River Site |
SSEB | Southern States Energy Board |
SST | Safe Secure Transport |
STD | Department of Energy Standard |
Sv | sievert |
TBD | to be determined |
TDOP | 10-drum overpack |
TMW | transuranic mixed waste |
TRL | Technology Readiness Level (e.g., TRL-5) |
TRU | transuranic |
TRUPACT | TRansUranic Package Transporter |
U | uranium |
UO2 | uranium oxide |
U.S. NRC | U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
USACE | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
VoR | volume of record |
WAC | waste acceptance criteria |
WDS/WWIS | Waste Data System/WIPP Waste Information System |
WGA | Western Governors’ Association |
WIPP | Waste Isolation Pilot Plant |
WRAC | waste removal after closure |
WUF | waste unit factor |
ZPPR | Zero Power Physics Reactor |