Research Opportunities for Deactivating and Decommissioning Department of Energy Facilities (2001)
Chapter: Appendix E: Acronyms
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E Acronyms
AEC Atomic Energy Commission
ALARA as low as reasonably achievable
BRWM Board on Radioactive Waste Management
COLEX column exchange
D&D deactivation and decommissioning
DDFA D&D focus area
DCGL derived concentration guideline level
DOE Department of Energy
EC European Commission
ELEX electric exchange
EM Office of Environmental Management (at DOE)
EMSP Environmental Management Science Program
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
GFP green fluorescent protein
HEU highly enriched uranium
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
ISTC International Science and Technology Center
LA/ICP/AES laser ablation inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry
LA/MS laser ablation mass spectroscopy
LEU low-enriched uranium
LIBS laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
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MEMS micro-electro-mechanical systems
NABIR Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research
NEA Nuclear Energy Agency
NRC National Research Council
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OSL optically stimulated luminescence
OST EM Office of Science and Technology
PCBs polychlorinated biphenyls
PUREX plutonium uranium extraction
R&D research and development
REDOX reduction oxidation
RIM robotics and intelligent machines
SRS Savannah River Site
STCGs site technology coordinating group
TCE trichloroethylene
TL thermal luminescence
TLD thermoluminescence dosimetry
USNRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission
