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2024 Comprehensive List of Acronyms* Acronyms are US unless noted otherwise**(Commonly Used by WMS Attendees and Acceptable forUse in Presentation Titles Without Spelling Out)AACRS Advisory Committee on Reactor Safety
ADA Americans with Disabilities Act
APDAS Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
AEA Atomic Energy Agency or the Atomic Energy Act of 1954**AECL Atomic Energy of Canada Limited*
AFCEE Airforce Center for Engineering and the Environment
AFR Away-From-Reactor Storage**ALARA As Low As Reasonably Achievable**ANDRA Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchetsradioactifs (French National Radioactive Waste ManagementAgency) ***ANL Argonne National Laboratory**ANS American Nuclear Society**ANSTO Australian Nuclear Science and TechnologyOrganization*
ARM Accelerator-Produced Radioactive Material**ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASTM American Society for Testing Materials
B
BfS Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (German Federal Office ofRadiation Protection) ***BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory
BRC Below Regulatory Concern or Blue-Ribbon Commission on
America’s Nuclear Future
BTP NRC Branch Technical Position**BWR Boiling Water Reactor
C
CST&D Communications, Stakeholder & Indigenous Engagement andProfessional Development**CEA Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique (French AtomicEnergy Commission) ***CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and Liability Act
CEU Continuing Education Unit
CFR Code of Federal Regulations**CH-TRU Contact-Handled Transuranic Radioactive Waste**CNL Canadian Nuclear Laboratories*
CNSC Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission*
COVRA Dutch Nuclear Waste Storage Facility*
CPP Crosscutting Policies & Programs**CPCCo Central Plateau Cleanup CompanyD**D&D Decontamination & Decommissioning
DAS Deputy Assistant Secretary**DAW Dry Activated Waste
DBE DBE TECHNOLOGY GmbHDCS Dry Container Storage
DNFSB Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board**DOD US Department of Defense**DOE US Department of Energy**DOT US Department of Transportation
DGR Deep Geological Repository
DRUM Defense Related Uranium Mines**DU Depleted Uranium**DWPF Defense Waste Processing Facility
E**EC European Commission***EDF Electricite’ de France (France Nuclear Utility)*
EDRAM International Association for Environmentally Safe
Disposal of Radioactive Materials
EFCOG Energy Facilities Contractors GroupEIA U.S. Energy Information Administration**EIS Environmental Impact Statement**EM Environmental Management
ENEA National Agency for New Technologies, Energy andEnvironment (Italy)*
ENRESA Empresa Nacional de Residuos Radiactivos (Spain) ***EPA US Environmental Protection Agency**EPRI Electric Power Research Institute**ER Environmental Remediation**EU European Union***ES&H Environment, Safety & HealthF/G**FUSRAP Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program**GAO United States Government Accountability Office
GIS Geographical Information System
GNEP Global Nuclear Energy Partnership**GOCO Government Owned/Contractor Operated
GTCC Greater Than Class C Low-Level Radioactive WasteH**H&S Health and Safety**HEPA High Efficiency Particulate Air**HEU Highly Enriched Uranium**HLW High-Level Radioactive WasteI**IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency (Austria)***ICRP International Commission on Radiological Protection**IFNEC International Framework for Nuclear Energy
Cooperation ***ILW Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste**INL Idaho National Laboratory**IPAC International Program Advisory Committee
IPSN Institute de Protection et de Surete (Institute for Protection
and Nuclear Safety - France)*
ISFSI Independent Spent Fuel Storage installation
ITRC Interstate Technology Roundtable Commission
IWTU Integrated Waste Treatment UnitJ/K**JAEA Japan Atomic Energy Agency***KAERI Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute*

L**LAW Low-Activity Radioactive Waste**LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory**LBNL Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
LCA Life-cycle Assessment
LFRG US DOE Low-Level Waste Disposal Facility Federal
Review Group

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2024 Comprehensive List of Acronyms**LEU Low Enriched Uranium**LL/ILW Low- and Intermediate-Level Radioactive Waste**LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory**LLRW/LLW Low-Level Radioactive Waste**LM Office of Legacy Management, US DOE**LSA Low Specific Radioactive Activity
LTM Long Term Monitoring**LWR Light-Water Reactor
M
METI Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Japan)*
M&I Management & Integration
M&O Management & Operation**MRS Monitored Retrievable Storage**MW Mixed Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes

MSIPP – DOE Minority Serving Institution Partnership
ProgramN**NAGRA National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive
Waste (Switzerland)***NCRP National Council on Radiation Protection**NDA Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
NDAA National Defense Authorization Act of 2005
NDF Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning
Facilitation Corporation of Japan***NEA Nuclear Energy Agency (France)***NEI Nuclear Energy Institute**NEPA National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
NFDI National Facility Disposition Initiative**NNL National Nuclear Laboratory (UK)***NNSA National Nuclear Security Administration**NNSS Nevada National Security Site**NORM Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material**NPP Nuclear Power Plant
NRC US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NUMO Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan*
NWMO Nuclear Waste Management Organization (Canada)*
NWPA Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982
NWPAA Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1987
NWTRB Nuclear Waste Technical Review BoardO**OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development(France)*
OPG Ontario Power Generation Inc.***ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P**P&T Partitioning and Transmutation
PA Performance Assessment
PAC Program Advisory Committee
PAT Packaging and Transportation
PBO Parent Body Organization for Sellafield Ltd*PCC Phoenix Convention Center
PFP Plutonium Finishing Plant
PHAI Port Hope Area Initiative (Canada)***PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PM Particulate Matter or Project Manager
PRA Probabilistic Risk Analysis**PRG Preliminary Remediation Goal
PROC People’s Republic of China*

PURAM Public Limited Company for Radioactive Waste
Management (Hungary)***PWR Pressurized Water Reactor

Q/R**QA Quality Assurance
QAPP Quality Assurance Program Plan
QC Quality Control**R&D Research and Development
RATA Lithuania State Enterprise Radioactive Waste
Management Agency*
RAWRA Czech Radioactive Waste Repository Authority***RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976
RDD Radiological Dispersion Devices**R, D&D Research, Development and Demonstration**RESRAD RESidual RADioactivity**RH-TRU Remote-Handled Transuranic Radioactive Waste
RI/FS Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study**RK&M Records, Knowledge and Memory
ROK Republic of Korea*
RPV Reactor Pressure VesselS
SAR Safety Analysis Report
SARP Safety Analysis Reports for Packaging**SFEN Société Française d’Energie Nucléaire (French NuclearSociety) *SKB Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Mgmt. Co*
SLC Site License Companies -UK**SMRs Small Modular Reactors**SNF Spent Nuclear Fuel**SNL Sandia National Laboratories**SNM Special Nuclear Material
SOGIN - Società Gestione Impianti Nucleari (Italian National
Radioactive Waste Management Agency)*
SPAs Special Packaging Authorizations
SPRU US DOE Separations Process Research Unit**SRMC Savannah River Mission Completion**SRNL Savannah River National Laboratory**SRNS Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
SRW Solid Radioactive Waste
ST Special Topics including Security, Safety & Safeguards**STEM Science, Technology, Engineering, MathSVE Soil Vapor Extraction
T**TENORM Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring
Radioactive Material
TER – US NRC Technical Evaluation Report
TEPCO Tokyo Electric Power Company***TRU Transuranic (elements with atomic number > than 92)**TRUPACT Transuranic Waste Package Transporter
TSD Treatment Storage and Disposal

U/V**UK United Kingdom
ULP Uranium Leasing Program**US/USA United States of America**USACE US Army Corps of Engineers
USAF US Air Force**US DOD US Department of Defense

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2024 Comprehensive List of Acronyms**US DOE US Department of Energy**US DOT US Department of Transportation**US EPA US Environmental Protection Agency**US NRC US Nuclear Regulatory Commission**UNF Used Nuclear Fuel**VLLW Very Low-Level Waste
W/Y**WAC Waste Acceptance Criteria
WD Waste Determination
WERC Waste-Management Education & Research Consortium**WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
WIR Waste Incidental to Reprocessing**WM Waste Management**WMS Waste Management Symposia, Inc.
WRAP Waste Receiving and Processing
WS Wet Storage
WTP Waste Treatment Plant at Hanford
WVDP West Valley Demonstration Project
YM Yucca Mountain