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APPENDIX B:
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015
RNM
French national network of environmental
radioactivity measurements
RNR
Fast Neutron Reactor
RNR-G
Gas-cooled Fast Neutron Reactor
RNR-Na
Sodium-cooled Fast Neutron Reactor
ROTONDE
Solid waste management installation project
(CEA - Cadarache)
RPE
Radiation Protection Expert
RPO
Radiation Protection Officer
RPS
Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (BNI
Procedure)
RRA
Residual Heat Removal System (PWR)
RRI
Component Cooling System (PWR)
RSE-M
Rules for In-service Monitoring of
Mechanical equipment
RSN
Regulation concerning the Safety of Ships
RTN
Rostekhnadzor
(Russian Nuclear Safety
Authority, attached to the Federal Service
of Industrial, Environmental and Nuclear
Regulation)
RTGV
Steam Generator Tube Rupture
RTR
Research and Test Reactors (fuel assemblies
known as “aluminides” used in research
reactors)
RWMC
Radioactive Waste Management Committee
(NEA)
R &D
Research and Development
SAMU
French Emergency Medical Service
SAPPRE
Reflex Phase Population Alert System
SATURNE
Former particle accelerator (CEA - Saclay)
SCWR
SuperCritical Water Reactor
SDIS
Departmental Fire and Emergency Service
SEC
Essential Service Water System (ESWS)
(PWR)
SEIVA
Valduc Information Exchange Structure
(Association created around the CEA centre
at Valduc)
SET
Société d’Enrichissement du Tricastin
SEVESO
“Seveso” Directive: name given to Council
Directive 96/82/EC of 9th December 1996
on the control of major-accident hazards
involving dangerous substances (with
reference to the site of a 1976 accident in a
chemical plant)
SFMN
French Nuclear Medicine and Molecular
Imaging Society
SFPM
French Society of Medical Physics
SFR
French Society of Radiology
SFRO
French Society for Radiation Oncology
SFRP
French Radiation Protection Society
SG
Office of Administration (ASN)
SGDN
French General Secretariat for National
Defence (until 2009)
SGDSN
General Secretariat for Defence and National
Security (since 2010)
SICN
Société Industrielle de Combustible Nucléaire
(Industrial Nuclear Fuel Company)
SILOE
Research reactor (CEA - Grenoble)
SILOETTE
Research reactor (CEA - Grenoble)
SISERI
Ionising Radiation Exposure Monitoring
Information System
SMI
French acronym for Integrated Management
System (IMS)