APPENDIX C
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
CIREA
Commission interministérielle des radioéléments artificiels (French Interministerial Commission for Artificial Radioelements) (activities taken over by the ASN in 2002)
CIRIL
Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche ions lasers (Interdisciplinary ion laser research centre - CNRS & CEA - Caen)
CIS-Bio International
Company specialising in biomedical technologies, especially radiopharmaceuticals
CISN
Comité interministériel de la sécurité nucléaire (French Interministerial Committee for Nuclear Security - replaced by the CICNR in 2003)
CITMD
Commission interministérielle du transport des matières dangereuses (French Interministerial Commission for the Carriage of Dangerous Goods)
CLE
Commission locale d’environnement (Local environment committee - name of the CLI at the FBFC plant in Romans/s/Isère)
CLI
Commission locale d’information (Local Information Committee)
CLIO
Free electron laser (LURE - CNRS - Orsay)
CLIS
Comité local d’information et de suivi (Local Committee for Information and Follow-up - name of the CLI for underground laboratories)
CLS
Commission locale de surveillance (Local Surveillance Committee - name of the CLI at the Fessenheim plant)
CMIR
Mobile radiological intervention unit
CMS
Maximum design flood level (flood protection)
CNA
Centrale nucléaire des Ardennes (Ardennes first French PWR - Chooz A reactor - EDF)
CNA-D
Equipment storage facility during decommissioning of the Chooz A reactor (EDF - Chooz)
CNDP
Commission nationale du débat public (French National Public Debates Commission)
CNEN
Centre national d’équipement nucléaire (National Centre for Nuclear Equipment - EDF)
CNEPE
Centre national d’équipement de production électrique (National Electricity Generating Equipment Centre - EDF)
CNPE
Centre nucléaire de production d’électricité (Nuclear Power Generation Site - EDF)
CNRA
Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (NEA)
CNRS
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
CNS
Council for Nuclear Safety (South African Nuclear Safety Authority until 1999)
Codex alimentarius
Collection of food health safety and consumer protection standards produced by a commission set up by the FAO and the WHO
CODIR-PA
Steering committee for managing the post-accident phase of a nuclear accident or radiological emergency situation
COFRAC
Comité français d’accréditation (French Accreditation Committee)
COFREND
Confédération française pour les essais non destructifs (French Non-Destructive Testing Confederation)
COGEMA
Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires (Nuclear Materials Company, AREVA group)
COGEMA LOGISTICS
Nuclear materials packaging and transport company (COGEMA subsidiary)
COGIC
Centre opérationnel de gestion interministérielle des crises (French Interministerial Emergency Management Operational Centre)
COMURHEX
Société pour la conversion de l’uranium en métal et en hexafluorure (Company for the conversion of uranium into metal and hexafluoride)
CONCERT
Concertation on European Regulatory Tasks (grouping of the nuclear safety authorities from eastern and western European countries)
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