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APPENDIX B:
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015
Appendix B
Acronyms and abbreviations
ACCIRAD
Guidelines on a risk analysis of ACCIdental
and unintended exposures in RADiotherapy
ACN
Aarhus Convention and Nuclear
(Anccli initiative)
ACO
Orsay Collider Ring (LURE - CNRS - Orsay)
ACRO
Association for the Control of Radioactivity
in the West
ADNR
Agreement on the transport of dangerous
substances on the river Rhine
ADR
European Agreement concerning the
International Carriage of Dangerous Goods
by Road
ADS
Accelerator Driven System (nuclear reactor
driven by a particle accelerator)
AEN
French acronym for the Nuclear Energy
Agency (NEA-OECD)
AERB
Atomic Energy Regulatory Board
(Indian
regulatory body)
AFCEN
French Association for NSSS Equipment
Construction Rules
AFCN
Federal Agency for Nuclear Control
(Belgium)
AFPPE
French Association of Radiographers
AFSSAPS
French Health Product Safety Agency
(replaced by the ANSM as of December
2011)
AGATE
Effluent Advanced Management and
Processing Facility (CEA - Cadarache)
AIEA
French acronym for the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA)
ALARA
As Low As Reasonably Achievable
(radiation protection principle also called
“optimization principle”)
ALS
Saclay Linear Accelerator (CEA)
AMI
Irradiated Material Facility (EDF - Chinon)
ANCCLI
National Association of Local Information
Commissions and Committees (since 2009)
ANDRA
French National Radioactive Waste
Management Agency
ANR
French National Research Agency
ANSES
French National Agency responsible for
Health and Safety of Food, the Environment
and Work (since July 2010)
ANSM
French National Agency for Drug and Health
Product Safety (formerly AFSSAPS)
AP-913
Maintenance doctrine (EDF)
APEC
Fuel Evacuation Facility (EDF - Creys-
Malville - Isère département)
AP-HP
Public Health Service – Paris Hospitals
AREVA
Industrial group active in the nuclear
fuel cycle and construction of nuclear
installations
AREVA NC
Fuel cycle licensee (Areva group)
AREVA NP
Designer and builder of nuclear power
plants (Areva group)