| ASN |
French nuclear
safety authority |
| ASR |
Refuelling outage |
| ASSET |
Assessment of Safety Significant
Events Team (IAEA expertise) |
| ATALANTE |
Alpha facility and laboratory
for transuranian elements analysis and reprocessing studies (CEA -
Marcoule) |
| ATENA |
Former contaminated sodium
waste processing installation project (CEA) |
| ATPu |
Plutonium technology facility
(COGEMA - Cadarache) |
| AT1 |
Former pilot reprocessing
plant for spent fuel from fast neutron reactors (CEA - La Hague) |
| ATUE |
Enriched uranium processing
facility(CEA - Cadarache) |
| AVN |
Association Vinçotte
nucléaire (technical support organisation for the Belgian
Nuclear Safety Authority and approved organisation for supervision
of nuclear installations in this country) |
| AZF |
Former name of the company
operating the fertiliser plant destroyed in the 21st September
2001 accident in Toulouse |
| BAC |
Packaging auxiliaries building |
| BAG |
Glovebox |
| BAM |
German Federal Institute
for Materials Research and Testing |
| BAN |
Nuclear auxiliaries building |
| BASIAS |
French former industrial
sites and department activity database |
| BASOL |
French database of polluted
sites and soils requiring action by the public authorities |
| BCCN |
Bureau de contrôle
des chaudières nucléaires (French NSSS Control
Office - ASN) |
| BCI |
Spent fuel building |
| BCOT |
Tricastin operational
hot unit |
| BECQUEREL |
Name of a nuclear exercise
held in 1996 in Saclay - unit of activity |
BEIR |
Biological Effects of Ionizing
Radiation (United States Academy of Science Committees) |
BMU |
German Ministry for the
Environment and Nuclear Safety |
BNFL |
British Nuclear Fuels Limited |
BNI |
Basic Nuclear Installation |
BNIS |
Classified basic nuclear
installation |
BO |
Official bulletin |
Bq |
Becquerel (unit of radioactivity) |
BRGM |
Bureau de recherches
géologiques et minières (Geological and Mining
Research Office) |
BTE |
Effluent treatment building |
BWR |
Boiling Water Reactor |