APPENDIX C
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
RSE-M

Rules for in-service monitoring of mechanical equipment

RSN
Regulation concerning the safety of ships
RTGV
Steam generator tube rupture
RTR
Research and Test Reactors (fuel assemblies known as “aluminides” used in research reactors)
RTV
Main steam rupture
RUS
Louis Pasteur University reactor (Strasbourg)
RWMC
Radioactive Waste Management Committee (NEA)
R & D
Research and Development
SCR
Radiation Protection Department
SAFARI
South African nuclear reactor
SAMU
French Emergency Medical Service
SATURNE
Former particle accelerator (CEA - Saclay)
SCHAPI
Service central d’hydrométéorologie et d’appui à la prévision des inondations (Central Hydrometeorology and Flood Prediction Support Department - French Ministry for Ecology and Sustainable Development / Water Directorate)
SCSIN
Service central de sûreté des installations nucléaires (Central Nuclear Installations Safety Department - replaced by the DSIN in 1991)
SEIVA
Valduc information exchange structure (Association created around the CEA centre at Valduc)
SEK
Conventional island liquid waste discharge system (PWR)
SENA
Ardennes Franco-Belgian nuclear energy company (operated the first Chooz plant until 1996)
SEPTEN
Design Department for Thermal and Nuclear Projects (EDF/DIN)
SFBMN
Société française de biophysique et de médecine nucléaire (French Society for Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine)
SFEN
Société française d’énergie nucléaire (French Nuclear Energy Society)
SFMNIM
Société française de médecine nucléaire et d’imagerie moléculaire (French Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Society)
SFPM
Société française de physique médicale (French Medical Physics Society)
SFR
Société française de radiologie (French Radiological Society)
SFRO
Société française de radiothérapie oncologique (French Oncology Radiotherapy Society)
SFRP
Société française de radioprotection (French Radiation Protection Society)
SGCISN
Secrétariat général du comité interministériel de la sécurité nucléaire (French General Secretariat of the Interministerial Commission for Nuclear Security - until 2003)
SGDN
Secrétariat général de la défense nationale (French General Secretariat for National Defence)
SHFJ
Service hospitalier Frédéric Joliot (CEA hospital service located in Orsay hospital - Essonne)
SICN

Société industrielle de combustible nucléaire (Industrial Nuclear Fuel Company)

SIGIS
Source Inventory Management Information System)
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