APPENDIX C
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
LDAC

Fuel Assembly Shearing Laboratory (CEA - Cadarache)

LECA
Active Fuel Examination Laboratory (CEA - Cadarache)
LECI
Spent Fuel Testing Laboratory (CEA - Saclay)
LEFCA
Laboratory for research and experimentalfabrication of advanced nuclear fuels (CEA - Cadarache)
LEP
Large Electron Positron Collider (CERN - Geneva)
LHA
High Activity Laboratory (CEA - Saclay)
LHC
Large Hadron Collider (CERN - Geneva)
LILW
Low and intermediate level waste (LL - IL waste)
LLW-LL
Low level long-lived waste (LL - LL waste)
LOLF
French constitutional bylaw on budget acts
LPC
Chemical Purification Laboratory (COGEMA - Cadarache)
LUDD
Laboratories, Plants, Waste and Dismantling
LURE
Electromagnetic Radiation Laboratory (CNRS - Orsay)
MAD
Decommissioning
MAGENTA
Cellular nuclear materials storage facility project (CEA)
MAGNUC
Nuclear viewdata magazine (replaced by the ASN website, with publication halted in 2006)
MAPu
Medium level Plutonium (MAPu facility: COGEMA - La Hague)
MARN
Mission d’appui à la gestion du risque nucléaire (Nuclear Risk Management Aid Committee - French Ministry of the Interior/DDSC)
MAS alpha
Special intermediate level alpha effluent
MASURCA
Cadarache fast-breeder mockup (research reactor - CEA - Cadarache)
MAU
Medium level uranium activity (MAU facility: COGEMA - La Hague)
MBq
MegaBecquerel (million Becquerels)
MCMF
Central fissile material warehouse (CEA - Cadarache)
MDB
Mission déléguée de bassin (River authority)
MDS
Organic solvent mineralisation facility (COGEMA - La Hague)
M€
Mégaeuros (million euros)
MELOX
MOX fuel fabrication plant (Marcoule)
MELUSINE
Research reactor (CEA - Grenoble)
MEM

Moroccan Ministry for Energy and Mines

METI
Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
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