APPENDIX C
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
HAO

Oxide high activity facility (COGEMA - La Hague)

HARMONIE
Former fast neutron source reactor (CEA - Cadarache)
HAS
Haute Autorité de santé (French High Health Authority - since 2005)
HLLLW
High level long-lived waste
HFD
Haut Fonctionnaire de défense (Defence High Official) (at each French ministry)
HSE
Health and Safety Executive (United Kingdom)
HSK
Main Nuclear Installations Safety Division - DSN (Swiss Nuclear Safety Authority)
HTR
High Temperature Reactor
Hydrotéléray
Network for continuous measurement of radioactivity in major rivers (IRSN)
IAEA
International Atomic Energy Agency (UN)
IARC
International Agency for Research on Cancer (part of the WHO and located in Lyons)
ICAO
International Civil Aviation Organisation
ICCRB
International Consultative Committee of Regulatory Bodies (group comprising representatives from the Regulatory authorities of Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States for the purpose of advising the Ukrainian Nuclear Safety Authority with respect to the Chernobyl site)
ICPE
Installation classified on environmental protection grounds (owing to its potential impact on the public and the environment, installation subject to the regulations defined in part I of book V of the French Environment Code)
ICRP
International Commission on Radiological Protection
IDSP
Weighted scanner dose index
IEC
International Electrotechnical Commission
IFSI
Institut de formation en soins infirmiers (Nursing Training Institute)
ILE ITER
Legal Entity (international body to be created to operate ITER)
ILL
Institut Laue-Langevin (Laue-Langevin Institute - Grenoble)
IMDG
International Maritime Code for Dangerous Goods
IN
Nuclear Inspectorate (EDF)
INERIS
Institut national de l’environnement industriel et des risques (French National Institute for the Study of Industrial Environments and Risks)
INES
International Nuclear Event Scale
INEX
International Nuclear Emergency Exercise (in particular carried out by the NEA)
INRA
– International Nuclear Regulators’ Association (comprising the regulators from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States)
– Institut national de recherche agronomique (French National Agronomy Research Institute)
INSAG
International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group (IAEA)
INSERM
Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (French National Health and Medical Research Institute)
INSTN

Institut national des sciences et techniques nucléaires (French National Institute for Nuclear Science and Techniques - CEA)

InVS
Institut de veille sanitaire (French Health Watch Institute)
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