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APPENDIX B:
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015
TEP
French acronym for Positron Emission
Tomography (PET)
TEP-TDM
Positron Emission Tomography associated
with a Computed Tomography scanner
(PET-CT)
TEPCO
Tokyo Electric Power Company
(Japanese electric utility)
TFA
French acronym for Very Low Level
(VLL waste)
TGAP
General Tax on Polluting Activities
THA
French acronym for Very High Level
(VHL waste)
TMD
Transport of Dangerous Goods
TMR
Transport of Radioactive Materials
TN
International
International subsidiary of AREVA NC
specializing in the packaging, transport and
interim storage of nuclear materials
TNA
Sodium (Na) treatment installation
(EDF - Creys-Malville - Isère
département)
TRANSSC
TRANsport Safety Standards Committee
(IAEA committee on radioactive materials
transport safety standards)
TSN
TSN Act: Act of 13th June 2006 on
Transparency and Security in the Nuclear
field
TU5
Fuel cycle installation
(Areva NC - Pierrelatte)
UCD
Alpha Waste Conditioning Central Unit
(Areva NC - La Hague)
UE
French acronym for European Union (EU)
ULYSSE
“Teaching” reactor (CEA - Saclay)
UNE
Enriched Natural Uranium
UNGG
Graphite-moderated gas-cooled reactor
(old-generation nuclear reactor process)
UNSCEAR
United Nations Scientific Committee on the
Effects of Atomic Radiation
UP2-400
Spent fuel reprocessing plant
(Areva NC - La Hague)
UP2-800
Spent fuel reprocessing plant
(Areva NC - La Hague)
UP3-A
Spent fuel reprocessing plant
(Areva NC - La Hague)
UPRA
Artificial radionuclide production plant
URE
Enriched Reprocessing Uranium
(fuel assemblies)
USIE
Unified System for Information Exchange
in Incidents and Emergencies - (IAEA tool
proposed to member countries for the
notification of nuclear events occurring on
their territory)
UTE
Union Technique de l’Électricité
(French
electrical engineering standardising body)
VD
Ten-yearly outage
VD1
1st ten-yearly outage
VD2
2nd ten-yearly outage
VD3
3rd ten-yearly outage
VD4
4th ten-yearly outage
VHTR
Very High Temperature Reactor
VICWG
Vendor Inspection Cooperation Working
Group (part of the MDEP programme)
VP
Partial Inspection Outage
VVP
Main Steam System
W
Fuel cycle plant
(Areva NC - Pierrelatte)
WANO
World Association of Nuclear Operators
WASSC
Waste Safety Standards Committee (IAEA)