ESWS |
Essential
service water system (PWR) |
EU |
European Union |
EURATOM |
European AtoMic Energy
Community |
EUROFAB |
Fabrication in Europe (experimental
programme to produce MOX fuel from military plutonium under the terms
of the American-Russian agreement to reduce plutonium stocks) |
| EURODIF |
European gaseous
diffusion enrichment plant |
| FAIOp |
Operator fire action sheet |
| FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization
(UN) |
| FBFC |
Société
franco-belge de fabrication de combustibles (Franco-Belgian Fuel
Fabrication Company) |
| FBR |
Fast breeder reactor |
| FDG
|
Fluorodeoxyglucose (substance
used in nuclear medicine) |
| FMEA |
Failure Modes and Effects
Analysis |
FP |
Fission Products |
| FRAMATOME |
French NSSS builder (AREVA
Group) |
| FRAMATOME-ANP |
Framatome - Advanced Nuclear
Power (company set up by AREVA and SIEMENS to develop the new EPR
reactor type) |
| FRAREG |
Framatome Regulators (Association
of nuclear safety authorities in countries operating power plants
of French design) |
| GALICE |
Nuclear fuel management
method (EDF) |
| GAN |
Russian nuclear safety
authority |
| GANIL |
Large National Heavy Ion
Accelerator (Caen) |
| GB
I |
Georges Besse Plant I -
EURODIF |
| GB
II |
Georges Besse Plant II
- planned |
GBq |
GigaBecquerel (thousand
million Becquerels) |
| GEMMES |
Nuclear fuel management
method (EDF) |
| Génération
IV |
International “Forum”
of ten countries and the European Union to develop future nuclear
reactors, known as 4th generation (GEN IV) |
| GEP |
Pluralistic experts group |
GIAG |
Guide d’intervention
en accident grave (serious accident action guide) |
| GP |
Advisory Committee (reporting
to the ASN) |
| GV |
Steam generator |
Gy |
Gray (unit of absorbed
dose) |
G7 |
Group of the 7 leading
industrial nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United
Kingdom and United States) |
G8 |
Group of the 8 leading
industrial nations (G7 + Russia) |