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APPENDIX B:
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015
ARS
Regional Health Agency (since 2010)
ASG
Steam Generator Auxiliary Feedwater system
(PWR)
ASIT
Swiss Technical Inspection Association
ASN
Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire,
the French
nuclear regulatory body, also referred to as
the French Nuclear Safety Authority
ASND
Defence Nuclear Safety Authority (structure
responsible for regulating nuclear safety and
radiation protection with regard to defence-
related nuclear activities and installations. It
is placed under the authority of DSND)
ASN-SFRO
This scale is designed to allow
communication with the public in
comprehensible, explicit terms with regard
to radiation protection events leading
to unexpected or unforeseeable effects
on patients undergoing external-beam
radiotherapy medical procedures.
ASR
Simple Refuelling Outage (PWR)
ASTRID
Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor
for Industrial Demonstration (prototype
Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (SFR) project
(CEA))
AT1
Former pilot reprocessing plant for spent
fuel from fast neutron reactors
(CEA - La Hague)
ATALANTE
Alpha Facility and Laboratory for
Transuranian elements Analysis and
Reprocessing Studies (CEA - Marcoule)
ATEX
EXplosive ATmospheres (ATEX regulation)
ATMEA
Joint venture between Areva and MHI
responsible for the development,
commercialisation, certification and sale of
ATMEA 1, a new 1,100 MWe reactor
ATPu
Plutonium Technology Facility
(Areva NC - Cadarache)
ATUE
Enriched uranium processing facility
(CEA - Cadarache)
AZF
Former name of the company operating
the fertiliser plant destroyed in the
21st September 2001 accident in Toulouse
BCOT
Tricastin Operational Hot Unit (nuclear
maintenance installation - EDF - Bollène)
Bel V
Technical Safety Organisation and subsidiary
of FANC (since 2008)
BK
BK Fuel Building
BMU
German Federal Ministry of the
Environment, Nature Conservation and
Nuclear Safety
BRGM
Geological and Mining Research Office
BSM
Fissile Materials Storage and Handling
Building (MASURCA reactor)
BSS
Basic Safety Standards
CABRI
Research reactor (CEA - Cadarache)
CADA
Administrative Documents Access
Commission
CANR
CNRA Committee on Nuclear Regulatory
Activities
CARSAT
French retirement and occupational health
insurance fund
CASCAD
Cadarache bunker research reactor spent
fuel storage facility (CEA)
CCAP
French Central Committee for Pressure
Vessels
CCP
Joint consultative commission
CCSN
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
(CNSC)
CE
European Community - “CE mark” -
mandatory and regulatory conformity mark
for some products in the European Union
to ensure that the product conforms with
the “essential requirements” defined by a
European Directive