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Glossary

Glossary of nuclear terms

by Winfried Koelzer

Nuclear Glossary as PDF-file
(7 MB, Edition April 2008)

A...
Activation analysis
Amplitude analyzer Annihilation radiation Annual limit on intake
Annular gap Anticoincidence circuit Antimatter
Antiparticles APP Argonaut
ASME Asse AtDeckV
AtG AtKostV Atom
Atomic bomb Atomic clock Atomic Energy Act
Atomic number Atomic weight AtSMV
AtVfV ATWS Autoradiolysis
Autoradiogram Availability factor AVM procedure
AVR    

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Body burden Body counter Body dose
Boiling water reactor Bone seeker Boron counter
Borosilicate glass Bq Breeding
Breeding factor Breeding gain Breeding process
Breeding ratio Breeding reactor Bremsstrahlung
BTU Bubble chamber Build-up factor
Burnup BWR  

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C-14 Calder Hall CANDU
Canister Capacity factor Capacity operating hours
Carbon-14 Castor CEA
Cell, hot Centrifuge Cerenkov radiation
Chain reaction Chelating agents, DTPA Chernobyl
Chop and leach Chromatography Ci
Cladding Classification of elements Closed-circuit cooling systems
Closed-circuit ventilation Cloud chamber Coal equivalent
Coated particles COGEMA Cogeneration
Coincidence Collective dose Commission on Radiological Protection
Committed dose Compact storage basins Company for Industrial Plants and Nuclear Safety
Compton effect Condensing basin Conditioning plant
Consensus on nuclear power Containment Contamination
Control rod Controlled area Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy
Conversion Conversion coefficient, internal Conversion electron
Conversion, radioactive Converter reactor Coolant
Cooling pond Cooling tower Core
Core catcher Core meltdown Core meltdown retention basin
Cosmic radiation Cost Ordinance Counter tube
CP-1 Critical Critical experiment
Critical mass Critical size Criticality
Criticality accident Criticality safety Criticality, prompt
Crud Curie Cyclotron

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D...
DAtF Dating, radioactive Daughter and grandchild nuclides
DBE Decay Decay basin
Decay chains, natural Decay constant Decay time
Decommissioning of nuclear power plants Decontamination Decontamination factor
Degree of enrichment Delayed critical Demineralized water
Depleted uranium Depletion Depth dose
Depth dose, relative Design basis accident DESY
Detection limit Deterministic radiation effect Deuterium
Deuteron Deutsches Atomforum (German Atomic Forum) Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (German Cancer Research Centre)
DIDO Diffusion separation process Direct cooling
Direct radiation Directional dose equivalent Disaster control plans
Discussion date Dispersion calculations Disposal precaution
Dissolution device Dissolver District heating power plant
Diversity DKFZ Dodecane
Dollar Doppler effect Dose
Dose build-up factor Dose coefficient Dose effect curve
Dose equivalent Dose equivalent rate Dose limit value
Dose rate Dose-effect relation Dosimeter
Dosimetry Doubling time Dry cooling tower
Dry storage    

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E
ECCS Ecology Ecosystem
Efficiency Electromagnetic isotope separation Electromagnetic radiation
Electron Electron capture Electron equilibrium
Electron volt Element Element, artificial
Elementary charge Elementary particles Emergency core cooling system
Emission Emission height Enclosed radioactive substances
Energy Energy balance record Energy carrier
Energy conversion Energy requirement Energy reserves
Energy units Engineered storage Enriched uranium
Enrichment Enrichment chains Enrichment factor
Enrichment method ENS Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental load environmental monitoring EPR
Equilibrium, radioactive Equipment availability factor ERAM
Euratom basic safety standards Eurochemic European Pressurized Water Reactor
eV EVA Evacuation plans
Evaluation graduation Examination threshold Excess reactivity
Excitation energy for nuclear fission Excited state Exclusion area
Excursion Exhaust air path Experimental reactor
Experimentation channel Exposure path Extraction Extraction
Extractor  

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F...
Fail safe Fallout Fast breeding reactor
Fast fission factor Fast reactor FBR
FE Federal Office for Radiation Protection Fertile material
Film dosimeter
Final energy Final Storage Advance Payments Ordinance
Financial security Fissile material Fissile material flow control
Fissility Fission Fission chamber
Fission gas Fission gas plenum Fission neutron
Fission neutron yield Fission product poison Fission products
Fission yield Fission, spontaneous Fission, thermal
Fissium, simulated Floor pan FMRB
FORATOM FR 2 FRG-1
FRH FRJ-2 FRM
FRM II FRMZ FS
Fuel Fuel comparison Fuel cycle
Fuel element Fuel element, irradiated Fuel element, spent
Fuel reprocessing Fuel rod Fuel, ceramic
Fusion  

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Gamma quantum Gamma radiation Gas amplification
Gas centrifuge process Gas flow counter Gas-cooled reactor
Gaseous diffusion process Geiger counter Geiger-Müller counter
Geometrically safe German electron synchrotron GeV
GKN-1 GKN-2 GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht
Glass dosimeter Glove Box Gonad dose
Gorleben Gray Ground radiation
GRS GSF Research Centre for Health and the Environment GSI
GW Gwe Gy

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Hafnium Hahn-Meitner Institute Half-life
Half-life, biological Half-life, effective Half-value thickness
Halogen-quench Geiger tube Handling of radioactive substances Harrisburg
HAW HDR Head-end
Heavy hydrogen Heavy water Heavy-water reactor
HEPA filter Hermann von Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres Heterogeneous reactor
HFR HGF High-temperature reactor
HMI Homogeneous reactor Hot
Hot cell Hot laboratory Hot workshop
HTR Hydrogen bomb Hydrogen sulphide process
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IAEA

ICRP

ICRP Publication 60

ICRU

IK

ILL

Imission

Incident

Incident precautions

Incident probability analysis

Incident sequence analysis

Incident/accident levels

Incorporation

Indicator

Inert gas

INES

Informationskreis Kernenergie

Ingestion

Inhalation

Inherently safe

INIS

In-pile

Intake

Integrity under aircraft crash

Interaction

Interaction, strong

Interaction, weak

Interim storage facilities for fuel elements

Interim storage of spent fuel elements

Intermediate load power plant

International Commission on Radiological Protection

Intervention

Intervention threshold

Iodine filter

Ion

Ion dose

Ion exchanger

Ionization

Ionization chamber

Ionizing radiation

IPP

IRPA

Isobars

Isodose curve

Isomers

Isotones

Isotope

Isotope enrichment

Isotope exchange

Isotope laboratory

Isotope separation

Isotopic abundance

Isotopic abundance, natural

Isotopic dilution analysis

   

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J...

Jet

 

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K...

KBR

K-capture

KERMA

Kerntechnischer Hilfsdienst

Kerosene

keV

Key measurement point

KFÜ

KGR

KHG

Kilogram, effective

KKB

KKE

KKG

KKI-1

KKI-2

KKK

KKN

KKP-1

KKP-2

KKR

KKS

KKU

KKW-Nord

K-meson

KMK

KNK-II

Konrad

K-radiation

KRB-A

KRB-B

KRB-C

KTA

KTG

KWG

KWL

KWO

KWW

 


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L...

Large-scale research facilities

LAVA

LAW

LD50

Leach rate

Leader nuclide

Lepton

LET

Lethal dose

Liability convention

Liability for nuclear facilities

Licensing procedure

Life time, mean

Light water reactor

Linac

Line losses

Linear accelerator

Linear amplifier

Linear energy transfer

Linear heat generation rate

Liquid scintillation counter

LMFBR

Load ranges of power plants

LOCA

Local dose

Long-lived radionuclides

Long-time dispersion factor

Loop

Lost concrete shielding

Lost energy

Low-temperature rectification

LSC

LWR

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M...

µCi

30-millirem concept

Magnetic lens

Magnox

Magnox reactor

Maintenance

MAK

Manipulator

Marking

Mass deficiency

Mass number

Mass spectrograph, mass spectrometer

Mass, critical

Material balance area

Material, depleted

Material, enriched

Material, unaccounted for

MAW

Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

Max Planck Society

Maximum capacity

Maximum credible accident

MBA

MCA

MCI

Mean free path

Mechanical-draft cooling tower

Megawatt

Meson

MeV

Microcurie

Millicurie

Millirem

Mixed oxide

Mixer settler

Moderation

Moderator

Molecule

Monazite

Monitor

Monitoring area

Monte-Carlo Method

MOX

MPG

mrem

MTR

MUF

Mülheim-Kärlich

Multiple-channel analyser

Multiplication factor

Muon

MW

MWd

MWd/t

MWe

MWth

MZFR

 

 

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N...

Natural draught cooling tower

Natural uranium

nCi

NEA

Neutrino

Neutron

Neutron activation analysis

Neutron density

Neutron flux density

Neutron source

Neutron, fast

Neutron, intermediate

Neutron, slow

Neutrons, delayed

Neutrons, epithermal

Neutrons, prompt

Neutrons, thermal

Non-destructive testing

Non-energetic consumption

Non-proliferation Treaty

Normal operation and anticipated operational occurrences

NPP

NPT

NRC

NSSS

Nuclear chemistry

Nuclear energy

Nuclear energy consensus

Nuclear event

Nuclear facility

Nuclear Financial Security Ordinance

Nuclear fission

Nuclear fuel

Nuclear fuel cycle

Nuclear fusion

Nuclear Licensing Procedures Ordinance

Nuclear material monitoring

Nuclear materials

Nuclear medicine

Nuclear parent

Nuclear poison

Nuclear power plant

Nuclear power plant complexes

Nuclear power plants in Europe

Nuclear power plants in Germany

Nuclear power plants in Germany, residual electricity generation

Nuclear power plants, world-wide

Nuclear power plants, world-wide, in order of importance

Nuclear power plants, world-wide, reactor types

Nuclear reactor

Nuclear reactor telemonitoring system

Nuclear Safety Officer and Reporting Ordinance

Nuclear Thrustworthiness Examination Ordinance

Nuclear Waste Movement Ordinance

Nucleon

Nucleus

Nuclide

   

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O...

"Otto Hahn"

Off-gas treatment

Oklo

Open radioactive substances

Operating experience with nuclear power plants

Operating hours

Operating manual

Organ committed dose

Organ dose

Output, specific

Overheating

 

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p...

2 pi-counter

4 pi-counter

Pair generation

PAMELA

Paris Convention

Partial body dose

Particle accelerator

Partition wall process

Party responsible for radiation protection

Peak load power plants

Pebble bed reactor

Pellet

Pen dosimeter

Period

Personal dose

Persons exposed to radiation in their work

Phosphate glass dosimeter

Photo-cathode

Photo-effect

Photon

PHWR

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt

Pi meson

Pinch effect

Pion

Plasma

Plateau

Plutonium

Plutonium bomb

Poison

Poisoning

Pollux

Pool reactor

Positron

Power generation, Germany

Power generation, nuclear power plants in Germany

Power generation, nuclear power plants in the EU

Power generation, nuclear power plants world-wide

Power plant output in the Federal Republic of Germany

Power reactor

ppb

ppm

Precautionary Radiation Protection Act

Pressure tube reactor

Pressure vessel

Pressurized water reactor

Primary energy

Primary energy consumption, Germany

Primary energy reserves

Proliferation

Proportional counter

Proton

PTB

Pulsed column

Pulsed reactor

Pure element

PUREX

PUREX process

PWR

 


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Q...

Quality assurance

Quality factor

Quality factor, effective


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R

rad

Radiation

Radiation biology

Radiation chemistry

Radiation damage in human beings

Radiation damage, biological

Radiation damage, early symptoms

Radiation damage, physical-chemical

Radiation detector

Radiation effect in the case of very high whole-body irradiation

Radiation effect, stochastic

Radiation exposure, average in Germany

Radiation exposure, building material

Radiation exposure, civilization-related

Radiation exposure, comparability, natural/ civilization-related

Radiation exposure, cosmic

Radiation exposure, dose limits

Radiation exposure, medical

Radiation exposure, natural

Radiation exposure, nuclear power plants

Radiation exposure, occupational

Radiation exposure, power plants

Radiation exposure, terrestrial

Radiation hygiene

Radiation medicine

Radiation physics

Radiation protection

Radiation protection areas

Radiation protection officer

Radiation syndrome

Radiation weighting factors

Radiation, characteristic

Radiation-exposed persons

Radio diagnostics

Radio iodine

Radioactive isotope

Radioactive substances

Radioactivity

Radioactivity, induced

Radioactivity, natural

Radiocarbon

Radiochemistry

Radioecology

Radio-element

Radiogram

Radiography

Radioisotope generator

Radiological Protection Ordinance

Radiology

Radiolysis

Radionuclide

Radionuclides, cosmogenic

Radionuclides, primordial

Radio-photoluminescence

Radioscopy

Radiotherapy

Radiotoxicity

Radium

Radon

Rasmussen report

Ratemeter

RBMK

RBW

rd

Reactivity

Reactor

Reactor control

Reactor coolant

Reactor coolant circuit

Reactor pressure vessel

Reactor protection system

Reactor risk study

Reactor Safety Commission

Reactor time constant

Reactor types, world-wide

Reactor, fast

Reactor, gas-cooled

Reactor, thermal

Receiving point

Recording threshold

Redundancy

Reference threshold

Reflector

Relative biological effect

rem

Renewable Energies Act

Reprocessing

Reprocessing Plant Karlsruhe

Reprocessing plants, world-wide

Research Centre Jülich

Research Centre Karlsruhe

Research Centre Rossendorf

Research reactor

Residual heat

Residual risk

Risk study

roentgen

RöV

RPL

RPV

RSK

Rupture protection

 

 

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