| CABRI |
Research reactor
(CEA - Cadarache) |
| CADA |
Commission d’accès
aux documents administratifs (Administrative Documents Access
Commission) |
| CAPE |
Centre d’appui
au parc en exploitation (Operating Plant Support Centre- EDF/DPN) |
| CAPRA |
Increased consumption of
plutonium in fast neutron reactors (Plutonium Burnup Research Programme
- CEA) |
| CASCAD |
Cadarache bunker research
reactor spent fuel storage facility (CEA) |
| CCAP |
Commission centrale
des appareils à pression (French Central Committee for
Pressure Vessels) |
| CCS |
Component Cooling System
(PWR) |
| CCSN |
Canadian Nuclear Safety
Commission (CNSC) |
| CDE |
Final shutdown |
| CDH |
Conseil départemental
d’hygiène (Departmental Health Council)
“CE marking”: mandatory, regulatory marking for certain
products in the European Union, guaranteeing product conformity with
the “essential requirements” defined by a European directive |
| CEA |
Commissariat à
l’énergie atomique (French Atomic Energy Agency) |
CEDRA |
Radioactive waste packaging
and interim storage unit (CEA - Cadarache) |
| CEIDRE |
Construction and Operation
Appraisal and Inspection Centre (EDF) |
|
CELIMENE |
Former unit used to examine
EL3 reactor fuel (CEA - Saclay) |
|
CENAL |
National Alarm Centre (division
of the Swiss federal population protection office: the Confederation’s
technical organisation for unusual events such as a rise in radioactivity
or various other technological accidents) |
|
CENTRACO |
Low-level waste processing
and packaging centre (CEA - Marcoule) |
| CEPN |
Centre d’études
sur l’évaluation de la protection dans le domaine nucléaire
(Study Centre for Nuclear Protection Assessment) |
|
CERN |
European organization for
nuclear research |
| CERCA |
Compagnie pour l’étude
et la réalisation des combustibles atomiques (Company
for the Design and Fabrication of Atomic Fuel) |
| CETEN-APAVE |
Centre technique national
et international des associations de propriétaires d’appareils
à vapeur et électriques (National and International
Technical Centre of Associations of Owners of Electric Equipment and
Pressure Vessels) |
CFCa |
Cadarache fabrication complex
(COGEMA - MOX facility) |
|
CFU |
Colony forming unit (CFU
per litre is the unit used to measure the concentration of legionella) |
|
CHICADE |
Chemistry, waste characterization
(CEA Cadarache) |
|
CHU |
University hospital, (treatment,
education and research) |
CHUV |
Vaudois region university
hospital (Lausanne) |
|
CICNR |
Comité interministériel
aux crises nucléaires ou radiologiques (French Interministerial
Committee for Nuclear or Radiological Emergencies - since 2003) |
|
CIDEN |
Centre d’ingénierie
déconstruction environnement (Engineering Centre for Dismantling
and Related Environmental Issues - EDF) |
CIINB |
Commission d’information
auprès des grands équipements énergétiques
du Tricastin (Tricastin major energy facility information committee
- name of the CLI on the Tricastin site) |
CIGEET |
Commission interministérielle
des installations nucléaires de base (Interministerial
Commission for Basic Nuclear Installations) |
CIPN |
Centre d’ingénierie
du parc nucléaire (Engineering Centre for Operating Plants) |