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APPENDIX B:
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015
INBS
Secret Basic Nuclear Installation (SBNI)
INCa
French National Cancer Institute
INERIS
French National Institute for the Study of
Industrial Environments and Risks
INES
International Nuclear and Radiological Event
Scale
INRA
International Nuclear Regulators’
Association
(grouping the German,
Canadian, Spanish, US, French, Japanese,
UK and Swedish nuclear regulators)
French National Institute for Agricultural
Research
INSAG
International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group
(IAEA)
INSTN
French National Institute for Nuclear
Science and Technology - CEA
InVS
French Health Monitoring Institute
IONISOS
Company operating ionisation installations
IOTA
Installations, Structures, Works and
Activities
IRE
National Radioelements Institute, Fleurus
- Belgium
IRCA
CAdarache IRradiator (CEA)
IRM
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
IRPA
International Radiation Protection
Association
IRRS
Integrated Regulatory Review Service
(audit on the organisation of a regulatory
body performed by the IAEA)
IRSN
French Institute for Radiation Protection and
Nuclear Safety
ISIS
Research reactor (CEA - Saclay)
ISO
International Organisation for
Standardisation
ISWG
Issue Specific Working Group
(part of the MDEP programme)
ITER
International Thermonuclear Experimental
Reactor (nuclear fusion reactor to be
installed at Cadarache)
JFR
French Radiology Days
(annual conference organised by SFR)
JOUE
French acronym for the
Official Journal
of the European Union
(OJEU)
KINS
Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (technical
support organisation for the South Korean
regulatory body)
LAMA
Active Materials Analysis Laboratory
(CEA - Grenoble)
LCPu
Plutonium Chemistry Laboratory
(CEA - Fontenay-aux-Roses)
LDAC
Fuel Assembly Shearing Laboratory
(CEA - Cadarache)
LDR
Low Dose-Rate
LECA
Active Fuel Examination Laboratory
(CEA - Cadarache)
LECI
Spent Fuel Testing Laboratory (CEA - Saclay)
LEFCA
Laboratory for Research and Experimental
Fabrication of Advanced nuclear Fuels
(CEA - Cadarache)
LFR
Lead cooled Fast Reactor
LHA
High Activity Laboratory (CEA - Saclay)
LHC
Large Hadron Collider (CERN - Geneva)
LIDEC
Ceidre Integrated Assessments Laboratory
(EDF)
LPC
Chemical Purification Laboratory
(Areva NC - Cadarache)