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1. Access hatch
2. Activation
3. Active fuel length
4. Activity
5. Agreement State
6. Air sampling
7. Airborne radioactivity area
8. ALARA
9. Annual limit on intake (ALI)
10. Anticipated transient without scram (ATWS)
11. Assumptions (for IPEs, IPEEs, and PRAs)
12. Attenuation
13. Auxiliary building
14. Auxiliary feedwater
15. Average planar linear heat generation rate (APLGHR)
16. Background radiation
17. Bayesian estimation
18. Bayesian prior
19. Becquerel (Bq)
20. Beta particle
21. Beyond design-basis accidents
22. Binding energy
23. Bioassay
24. Biological half-life
25. Biological shield
26. Boiling water reactor (BWR)
27. Bone seeker
28. Breeder
29. British thermal unit (Btu)
30. Byproduct
31. Calibration
32. Capability
33. Capacity factor (gross)
34. Capacity factor (net)
35. Cask
36. Cation
37. Chain reaction
38. Charged particle
39. Chemical recombination
40. Cladding
41. Cleanup system
42. Coastdown
43. Cold shutdown
44. Collective dose
45. Committed dose equivalent (CDE)
46. Committed effective dose equivalent (CEDE)
47. Compact
48. Compound
49. Condensate
50. Condenser
51. Construction recapture
52. Containment structure
53. Contamination
54. Control rod
55. Control room
56. Controlled area
57. Coolant
58. Cooldown
59. Cooling tower
60. Core
61. Core damage frequency
62. Core melt accident
63. Cosmic radiation
64. Counter
65. Critical mass
66. Critical organ
67. Criticality
68. Crud
69. Cumulative dose
70. Curie (Ci)
71. Daughter products
72. Decay heat
73. Decay, radioactive
74. Declared pregnant woman
75. Decommissioning
76. DECON (but also needs reactor decon)
77. Decontamination
78. Deep-Dose Equivalent (DDE)
79. Defense-in-depth
80. Departure from nuclear boiling ratio (DNBR)
81. Departure from nucleate boiling (DNB)
82. Depleted uranium
83. Derived air concentration (DAC)
84. Derived Air Concentration-Hour (DAC-hour)
85. Design-basis accident
86. Design-basis phenomena
87. Design-basis threat
88. Detector
89. Deterministic (probabilistic)
90. Deterministic effect
91. Deuterium
92. Deuteron
93. Doppler coefficient
94. Dose
95. Dose equivalent
96. Dose rate
97. Dose, absorbed
98. Dosimeter
99. Dosimetry
100. Drywell
101. Earthquake, operating basis
102. Effective Dose Equivalent
103. Effective half-life
104. Efficiency, plant
105. Electrical generator
106. Electromagnetic radiation
107. Electron
108. Element
109. Emergency classifications
110. Emergency core cooling systems (ECCS)
111. Emergency feedwater
112. ENTOMB
113. Environmental qualification
114. Event Notification (EN) system
115. Exclusion area
116. Excursion
117. Exposure
118. External radiation
119. Extremities
120. Fast fission
121. Fast neutron
122. Feedwater
123. Fertile material
124. Film badge
125. Fiscal year
126. Fissile material
127. Fission (fissioning)
128. Fission gases
129. Fission products
130. Fissionable material
131. Flux
132. Formula quantity
133. Fuel assembly
134. Fuel cycle
135. Fuel reprocessing
136. Fuel rod
137. Fuel temperature coefficient of reactivity
138. Full-time equivalent
139. Fusion reaction
140. Gamma radiation
141. Gap
142. Gas centrifuge
143. Gas-cooled reactor
144. Gaseous diffusion plant
145. Gases
146. Geiger-Mueller counter
147. Generation (gross)
148. Generation (net)
149. Gigawatt
150. Gigawatthour
151. Graphite
152. Gray (Gy)
153. Half-life
154. Half-life, biological
155. Half-life, effective
156. Half-thickness
157. Head, reactor vessel
158. Health physics
159. Heap leach
160. Heat exchanger
161. Heat sink
162. Heatup
163. Heavy water (D2O)
164. Heavy water moderated reactor
165. High radiation area
166. High-enriched uranium
167. High-level waste
168. Hot
169. Hot spot
170. In situ leach
171. In vitro
172. In vivo
173. Individual plant examination (IPE)
174. Individual plant examination for external events (IPEEE)
175. Induced radioactivity
176. Integrated plant evaluation
177. Iodine spiking factor
178. Ion
179. Ion-exchange
180. Ionization
181. Ionization chamber
182. Ionizing radiation
183. Irradiation
184. Isotope
185. Isotope separation
186. Isotopic enrichment
187. [[[no terms for this letter]]]
188. Kilo-
189. Kilovolt
190. Kinetic energy
191. Lens Dose Equivalent
192. Lethal dose (LD)
193. Licensed Material
194. Licensing basis
195. Light water
196. Light water reactor
197. Limiting condition for operation
198. Limiting safety system settings
199. Linear heat generation rate
200. Loop
201. Loss of coolant accident (LOCA)
202. Low population zone (LPZ)
203. Low-level waste
204. Mass number
205. Mass-energy equation
206. Maximum dependable capacity (gross)
207. Maximum dependable capacity (net)
208. Mega-
209. Megacurie
210. Megawatt (MW)
211. Megawatt hour (MWh)
212. Metric ton
213. Micro-
214. Microcurie
215. Mill tailings
216. Milli-
217. Millirem
218. Milliroentgen (mR)
219. Mixed oxide (MOX) fuel
220. Moderator
221. Moderator temperature coefficient of reactivity
222. Molecule
223. Monitoring of radiation
224. Nano-
225. Nanocurie
226. Natural circulation
227. Natural uranium
228. Net summer capability
229. Neutron
230. Neutron capture
231. Neutron chain reaction
232. Neutron flux
233. Neutron generation
234. Neutron leakage
235. Neutron source
236. Neutron, thermal
237. Noble gas
238. Non-stochastic effect
239. Non-vital plant systems
240. Nonpower reactor
241. Not Applicable (NA)
242. Not Reported (NR)
243. Nozzle
244. NRC Operations Center
245. Nuclear energy
246. Nuclear force
247. Nuclear power plant
248. Nuclear steam supply system
249. Nuclear waste
250. Nucleon
251. Nucleus
252. Nuclide
253. Occupational Dose
254. Operable
255. Operational mode
256. Orphan Source
257. Parent
258. Parts per million (ppm)
259. Pellet, fuel
260. Performance-based regulation
261. Performance-based regulatory action
262. Periodic table
263. Personnel monitoring
264. Photon
265. Pico-
266. Picocurie
267. Pig
268. Pile
269. Planned special exposure
270. Plausible accidents
271. Plutonium (Pu)
272. Pocket dosimeter
273. Poison, neutron
274. Pool reactor
275. Positron
276. Possession-only license
277. Power coefficient of reactivity
278. Power defect
279. Power reactor
280. Preliminary Notification (PN)
281. Pressure vessel
282. Pressurized water reactor (PWR)
283. Pressurizer
284. Primary system
285. Probabilistic risk analysis
286. Production expense
287. Proportional counter
288. Proprietary information
289. Proton
290. Public Dose
291. Quality factor
292. Quantum theory
293. Rad
294. Radiation (ionizing radiation)
295. Radiation area
296. Radiation detection instrument
297. Radiation shielding
298. Radiation sickness (syndrome)
299. Radiation source
300. Radiation standards
301. Radiation warning symbol
302. Radiation, nuclear
303. Radioactive contamination
304. Radioactive decay
305. Radioactive series
306. Radioactivity
307. Radiography
308. Radioisotope
309. Radiological sabotage
310. Radiological survey
311. Radiology
312. Radionuclide
313. Radiosensitivity
314. Radium (Ra)
315. Radon (Rn)
316. Reaction
317. Reactivity
318. Reactor coolant system
319. Reactor, nuclear
320. Reasonable
321. Reference man
322. Reflector
323. Rem
324. Restricted area
325. Risk
326. Risk-based decisionmaking
327. Risk-informed decisionmaking
328. Risk-informed regulation
329. Risk-significant
330. Roentgen (R)
331. Rubblization
332. Safe shutdown earthquake
333. Safeguards
334. Safety injection
335. Safety limit
336. Safety related
337. Safety-significant
338. SAFSTOR
339. Scattered radiation
340. Scintillation detector
341. Scram
342. Sealed source
343. Secondary radiation
344. Secondary system
345. Seismic category I
346. Severe accident
347. Shallow-Dose Equivalent (SDE)
348. Shielding
349. Shutdown
350. Shutdown margin
351. Sievert (Sv)
352. Somatic effects of radiation
353. Source material
354. Special nuclear material
355. Spent (depleted) fuel
356. Spent fuel pool
357. Spent nuclear fuel
358. Stable isotope
359. Standard Review Plan
360. Standard Technical Specifications
361. Startup
362. Stay time
363. Steam generator
364. Stochastic effects
365. Subcritical mass
366. Subcriticality
367. Supercritical reactor
368. Supercriticality
369. Superheating
370. Survey meter
371. Technical Specifications
372. Terrestrial radiation
373. Thermal breeder reactor
374. Thermal power
375. Thermal reactor
376. Thermal shield
377. Thermalization
378. Thermoluminescent dosimeter
379. Thermonuclear
380. Total Effective Dose Equivalent (TEDE)
381. Transient
382. Transuranic element
383. Transuranic waste
384. Trip, reactor
385. Tritium
386. Turbine
387. Turbine generator (TG)
388. Ultraviolet
389. Uncertainty range
390. Unnecessary regulatory burden
391. Unrestricted area
392. Unstable isotope
393. Unwanted Radioactive Material (Orphan Sources)
394. Uranium
395. Uranium fuel fabrication facility
396. Uranium hexafluoride production facility
397. Vapor
398. Very high radiation area
399. Viability assessment
400. Void
401. Void coefficient of reactivity
402. Waste, radioactive we have Radioactive waste.
403. Watt
404. Watt-hour
405. Weighting factor (WT)
406. Well-logging
407. Wheeling service
408. Whole-body counter
409. Whole-body exposure
410. Wipe sample
411. X-rays
412. Yellowcake