APPENDIX C
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
nSv

Nanosievert (thousand millionth of a sievert)

NSWG
Nuclear Safety Working Group (G7)
NUPEC
Technical expertising organisation of the NISA (METI - Japan)
NUSSC
Nuclear Safety Standards Committee (IAEA)
NuPEER
Nuclear Pressure Equipment Expertise & Regulation (nuclear pressure vessel symposium)
N4
1450 MWe nuclear reactor series (EDF)
OA
Approved Arganisation for supervision
OASIS
Name of the ASN intranet
OECD
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OHF
Organisational and Human Factors
OMF
Reliability centred maintenance
OPECST
Office parlementaire d’évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques (French Parliamentary Office for the Assessment of Scientific and Technological Options)
OPRI
Office de protection contre les rayonnements ionisants (Office for Protection Against Ionising Radiation - until 2002)
OPS
See JAR-OPS
ORCADE
Project set up by COGEMA for decommissioning of the La Hague installations
ORPHEE
Research reactor (CEA - Saclay)
ORSEC
General plan organising the emergency services at departmental, defense zone, or maritime prefecture level, should a disaster be declared by the State
OSART
Operational Safety Review Team (IAEA)
OSIRIS
Research reactor (CEA - Saclay)
OSPAR
Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (signed in 1992 and combining and updating the Oslo 1972 and Paris 1974 conventions)
PAI
Fire-fighting action plan
PAP
Annual performance plan (within the framework of the LOLF - document appended to the finance bill and for a given programme, presenting in particular the objectives and the expected results of the various programme actions)
PAREX
Post-accident experience feedback
PASEPRI
Action plan for monitoring patient exposure to ionising radiation
PBMR
Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (reactor project - South Africa)
PC
Command post
PCC
Command and control post (evaluation of consequences and measures)
PCD
Strategic management command post
PCL

Local command post (installation operation)

PCM
Logistic management command post)
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