APPENDIX C
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
ACC
Hulls and end-pieces compaction facility (COGEMA - La Hague)
ACO
Orsay collider ring (LURE - CNRS - Orsay)
ACR
Resins conditioning facility (COGEMA - La Hague)
ACRO
Association pour le contrôle de la radioactivité dans l’ouest (Association for the Control of Radioactivity in the West)
ADNR
European Agreement concerning International Carriage of Dangerous Goods on the Rhine
ADR
European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road
AERB
Indian nuclear safety authority
AFCEN
Association française pour les règles de conception et de construction des matériels des chaudières électronucléaires (French Association for NSSS Equipment Construction Rules)
AFCN
Agence fédérale de contrôle nucléaire (Belgian Federal Nuclear Supervision Agency)
AFSSA
Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des aliments (French Food Product Safety Agency)
AFSSAPS
Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des produits de santé (French Health Product Safety Agency)
AFSSE
Agence française de sécurité sanitaire environnementale (French Environmental Health Safety Agency - became the AFSSET in September 2005)
AFSSET
Agence française de sécurité sanitaire de l’environnement et du travail (French Environmental and Labour Health Safety Agency (since September 2005)
AGATE
Effluent advanced management and processing facility (CEA project - Cadarache)
ALARA
As Low As Reasonably Achievable
ALCADE
Nuclear fuel management method (EDF)
ALS
Saclay linear accelerator (CEA)
AMI
Irradiated materials facility (EDF - Chinon)
ANAES
Agence nationale d’accréditation et d’évaluation des soins (French National Agency for Health Care Accreditation and Assessment)
ANCLI
Association nationale des commissions locales d’information (National CLI Association)
ANDRA
Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs (French National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management)
ANSTO
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
APE
State-based approach
APEC
Fuel evacuation facility (EDF - Creys-Malville - Isère)
AP-HP
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (Public Health Service - Paris Hospitals)
AQG
Atomic Questions Group (European Union)
ARE
Steam generator feedwater system (PWR)
AREVA
Industrial group active in the nuclear fuel cycle and construction of nuclear installations
ARPE
Water intake and discharge licence (for BNIs)
ASG
Steam generator emergency feedwater system (PWR)
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