ACSEPT - Actinide reCycling by SEParation and Transmutation - FP7.

 ACTINET-I3 - Actinet Integrated Infrastructure Initiative, FP7, 5 countries, 7 partners including the CNRS, LGI and CEA.

ADS - Accelerator Driven System: the subcritical systems devoted to transmutation are controlled by the ADS accelerator and include three components: a linear accelerator, a spallation target, and a subcritical nuclear reactor. 

AFTRA - Advanced Fuel for Transmutation.

 ANFC - Alternative Nuclear Fuel Cycles; 2010-..., FP7, 6 countries, 14 partners including the CEA.

ANL - Argonne National Laboratory.

 ARCAS - ADS and fast reactor comparison study in support of the SNETP’s SRA; 2010-2012, FP7, 8 countries and 14 partners.

 Argona - Arenas for Risk Governance.

 Astrid - Advanced Sodium Technology Reactor for Industrial Demonstration: the name given to the prototype sodium-cooled fast reactor stipulated under the law of 28 June 2006, to be built by 2020. 

 ATR - Advanced Test Reactor.

 C0 – “Old” and Atalante glass canisters.

 C5 – UOX glass canisters, including glass produced in accordance with specification 300 AQ 60.

C6 - Future glass canisters for reprocessing PWR Mox fuel and spent fuel/re-enriched uranium. CATCLAY - Treatment and disposal of irradiated graphite and other carbonaceous waste; 2008-2012, FP7, 16 countries, 28 partners including Andra, CEA, CNRS, AREVA, EDF, UCAR-SNC and the Ecole Normale Supérieure. 

 CBP - Process shielded line.

 CEFR - China Experimental Fast Reactor.

 Clipex - CLay Instrumentation Programme for the EXtension of an underground research laboratory.

 Coex - A process for co-extracting all minor actinides.

 CORALUS - CORrosion of Active gLass in Underground Storage conditions.

 CP- ESFR - Collaborative Project on European Sodium Fast Reactor; 2009-2012, FP7, 10 countries, 25 partners including the CEA, AREVA NP, IRSN and EDF.

 CSD-C - Standard compacted waste containers.

 CSD-V - Standard vitrified waste containers.

 CSFMA - Low- and intermediate-level waste storage centre located in Soulaines, Aube.

 CU3 - Spent fuel from military and research activities, known as ‘exotic’ fuel.

 Demetra - DEvelopment and assessment of structural materials and heavy liquid MEtal technologies for TRAnsmutation.

 DGEC - Directorate General for Energy and Climate.

 Diamex - DIAMide Extraction: a method for separating lanthanides and minor actinides from fission products. 

 DOE - United States Department of Energy.

 EFR - European Fast Reactor. ENEN - European Nuclear Education Network Association. ENEN II - European nuclear education, training and knowledge management; 2006-2008, 11 countries, 40 partners including the CEA, Andra, IRSN and the Ecole Polytechnique. EPR - European Pressurized Water Reactor; third-generation pressurised water reactor. ESFR - European Sodium Fast Reactor - FP7. 

 ESTRED - Engineering Studies and Demonstration of REpository Designs: a programme for demonstrating the technical feasibility, on an industrial scale, of activities carried out to build, operate, and close a geological site; 2004-2009, 13 partners, 9 countries; project incorporated in the 6^th Euratom Framework Programme on Research and Development.

 ETDR - European acronym for Experimental Technology Demonstration Reactor (research and development reactor for gas-cooled fast neutron reactor technology).

 EUFRAT - European facility for innovative reactor and transmutation neutron data; 2008-2012, FP7, CE-CCR.

 Europart - EUROpean Research Programme for the PARTitioning of Minor Actinides; FPRD (2004-2006, 24 partners, 11 countries).

 Eurotrans - European Research Programme for the Transmutation of High Level Nuclear Waste in an Accelerator Driven System; FP6 (2005-2009, 29 partners, 11 countries).

 Exam - Americium extraction.

Lasgit experiment - Large scale gas injection test. 

PWR experimentation - Studies of the response of the rock mass to the effects of shaft digging.

 FAIRFUELS - Fabrication, irradiation and reprocessing of fuels and targets for transmutation; 2009-2013, FP7, 6 countries, 10 partners including the CEA and Lagrange-LCI.

 FAR - Fundamental and Applied Actinide Research; CCR (Joint Research Centre) action, 12 countries, 26 partners.

LLLLW - Long-lived, low-level waste.

 FBTR - Fast Breeder Test Reactor.

 SLLLW/SLILW - Short-lived, low- and intermediate-level waste.

 Forge - Fate of repository gases: a programme for improving the knowledge of gas transfer processes in raw materials found in various disposal concepts. 

 Forpro - Deep geological formations.

FunMig - European project (2005-2008) for the study of the ‘Fundamental processes of radionuclide migration’, 2005-2008; 51 partners and 15 countries, FP6.

 FZK - Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe.

 GACID - Global Actinide Cycle International Demonstration (see Appendix 10).

 Ganex - Combined transuranic element extraction.

 GdR FORPRO - Research group involving the CNRS and Andra, created on 1 January 1998, for the research to be conducted in the underground qualification laboratories (FORmations géologiques PROfondes – Deep Geological Formations).

 Gédépéon - New options for energy production and waste management.

ERDO Workgroup - European Repository Development Organisation, with representatives from Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

Petrus Group - Petrus II Sub-group; 2009-2008, FP7, 10 countries, 17 Partners including Andra and the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine.

 Guinevere - Generator of Uninterrupted Intense Neutrons at the lead Venus Reactor; 2006-..., collaboration with the CEA and CNRS.

HL - High level.

LLHLW - Long-lived, high-level waste.

 HeLiMnet - Heavy Liquid Metal network; 2010-..., FP7, 9 countries and 13 partners including the CEA.

 HFR - High-flux reactor installed in Petten, Netherlands.

 IFP - French petroleum institute.

 IGD-TP - European technological platform for the geological disposal of nuclear waste; founding members: waste management organisations in Belgium (ONDRAF), Finland (Posiva), France (Andra), Spain (ENRESA), Sweden (SKB), Switzerland (Nagra), UK (CND) and the German Federal Ministry of the Economy and Technology (BMWi).

 INL - Idaho National Laboratory.

 JHR-CP - Jules Horowitz reactor collaborative project: contribution to the design and construction of a new research infrastructure of pan-European interest, the JHR material testing reactor; 2009, FP7, 5 countries and 6 partners including the CEA as project manager.

 KTE - Knowledge Management, Training and Education; 2007-..., FP7, Karlsruhe CCR (Joint Research Centre).

 LEADER - Lead-cooled European Advanced Demonstration Reactor; 2010-2012; FP7, 12 countries and 17 partners including the CEA.

 Matinex - Innovative materials in extreme conditions.

LLILW - Long-lived, intermediate-level waste.

 Micado - Model uncertainty for the mechanism of dissolution of spent fuel in a nuclear waste repository; 2006-2009, 18 partners, 6 countries.

 MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 MODERN - A joint EC/NEA EBS project synthesis report; 2008-2009, FP7 and NEA.

 Momas - Mathematical models and computer simulations for nuclear waste management problems.

 Mox - Mixed OXide; nuclear fuel based on depleted uranium oxide and plutonium oxide.

 Mox - Uranium and plutonium oxide.

 Myrrha - Multipurpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications; 1998-?, collaboration with the Eurotrans partners, including the CNRS, CEA, AREVA, Advanced Accelerator Applications and ENEN.

 ND-MINWASTE - Nuclear data for radioactive waste management and safety of new reactor developments; 8 countries, 15 partners including the CNRS, CEA and the Université Louis Pasteur.

 NURISP - Nuclear reactor integrated simulation project, 2009-2012, FP7, 14 countries, 22 organisations including EDF, IRSN and the CEA.

 

 NWD - Nuclear Waste Disposal action, Euratom CCR (Joint Research Centre), 11 countries, 21 partners including the CNRS and CEA.

 ODS – Oxide dispersion strengthened ferritic steels.

 OSIRIS - Test reactor installed on CEA's site in Saclay, France.

 Pacen - Programme on the downstream part of the cycle and nuclear energy production, CNRS interdisciplinary programme.

 Paris - Physicochemistry of actinides and radionuclides at interfaces and in solutions.

 Pateros - Partitioning and Transmutation European Roadmap for Sustainable nuclear energy.

 PEBS - Long-term Performance of the Engineered Barrier System; 2010-2014, FP7, 8 countries, 17 partners.

Petrus II - Towards a European training market and professional qualification in Geological Disposal; 2009-2012, FP7, 10 countries, 14 partners including the European network for training in the nuclear sciences, Andra and the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine. 

 PNGMDR - National plan for the management of radioactive materials and waste.

 PRECCI I - CEA research programme on the long-term evolution of irradiated fuel packages.

COEX process - Combined extraction of uranium and plutonium.

Alfa Project - Planned workshop for manufacturing minor actinide-loaded pins.

VE Project - Ventilation Experiment; assessing the alteration in the hydro-mechanical conditions of the Opalinus clay in Mont Terri, caused by ventilation, its amplitude and its extension.

 

 

 

 

 

 Purex - Plutonium Uranium Refining By Extraction: a hydrometallurgical process for separating uranium and plutonium. 

 R7T7 - Name of the glass manufactured for high-level waste in the Cogema workshops (R7 for the UP3 plant; T7 for the UP2 800 plant).

Homogeneous and heterogeneous recycling - In homogeneous mode, the minor actinides are diluted to a few % in the fuel; in heterogeneous mode, they are contained in the target pins or loaded blankets (CCAM concept), in which the maximum minor actinide content will be 20%).

 Red-Impact - European Research Programme to assess the Impact of Partitioning and Transmutation on Final Nuclear Waste Disposal - FP7 2004-2007; 23 partners, including the CEA and AREVA.

 REDT - Experimental Technology Demonstration Reactor - a research and development reactor for gas-cooled fast neutron reactor technology.

PWR - Second-generation pressurised water reactor. Resolution 17438/1/08 - 

Council Resolution on Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Management, 16 December 2008, 17438/1/08.

 JHR - Jules Horowitz test reactor currently being constructed at the CEA site in Cadarache.

FNR - Fast neutron reactor.

Isogenerating FNR - A reactor is said to be isogenerating if it produces as many fissile materials as it consumes.

 Sanex - Partitioning of Actinides through Extraction: a process for separating lanthanides and minor actinides. 

 Sapierr - Support Action: Pilot Initiative on European Regional Repositories; 2006-2008, 8 partners, 8 countries. 

 SCI - Storage under an intact cover.

 SCK• CEN - Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie•Centre d'Étude de l'Energie Nucléaire, Belgium.

 SCR - Storage under a reworked cover.

 SDZ - The aim is to identify the physical phenomena that occur around a tunnel subjected to variations in hygrometry.

 Secure - Security of energy considering its uncertainty, risk and economic implications; 2008-2010, FP7, 10 countries, 14 partners including the Observatoire Méditerranéen de l'Energie and CNRS.

 Selfrac - Experiments on fracturing, self-healing and self-sealing processes in clays.

 SKB - Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB: Swedish nuclear fuel and waste management company. 

 SNE-TP - Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform; the goal is to coordinate R&D devoted to nuclear fission on the European level (FP7).

 TED - Experimentation in the field of overpressure in the argillite around a doublet/triplet of heat sources.

 TER - Experimentation on the response of argillite to thermal stresses.

VLL - Very low level.

 TGI - Research infrastructure accredited as a ‘Très grande infrastructure’ or ‘Very large infrastructure’.

 THINS - Thermal-Hydraulic research for Innovative Nuclear Systems; 2010-2014, FP7, 11 countries, 24 partners including the CEA and IRSN.

 Timodaz - Thermal Impact on the Damaged Zone Around a Radioactive Waste Disposal in Clay Host Rocks; 14 partners, 8 countries; FP7.

 tHM - tonne of heavy metal.

 Trasse - Transfer of radionuclides in the ground, bedrock and ecosystems.

 Tuf - High-porosity, low-density rock.

 UNGG - Natural Uranium/Graphite/Gas reactor.

 UOX - Uranium oxide.

Depleted uranium - Depleted uranium results from enrichment of natural uranium.

 Ure - Re-enriched uranium; designates reprocessed uranium (URT) that is re-enriched in order to be used again in the fuel cycle.

 Vestale - CEA research programme on vitrification processes for fission products and actinides, and the study of the properties of the vitrified residue.

 Zira - Zone of interest for further surveying, or Zira, is the name given by Andra to the restricted zone of interest stipulated in the law.