Glossary of nuclear terms

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Jet

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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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Large-scale research facilities	LAW	LD50
Leach rate	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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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	Maximum capacity	Maximum credible accident
MBA	MCA	MCI
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	mrem
MTR	MUF	Mülheim-Kärlich
Multiple disaggregation	Multiple-channel analyser	Multiplication factor
Muon	MW	MWd
MWd/t	MWe	MWth
MZFR

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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 event	Nuclear facility	Nuclear fission
Nuclear fuel	Nuclear fuel cycle	Nuclear fusion
Nuclear material monitoring	Nuclear medicine	Nuclear parent
Nuclear poison	Nuclear power plant	Nuclear power plants in Europe
Nuclear power plants in Germany	Nuclear power plants, world-wide	Nuclear power plants, world-wide, in order of electricity generation
Nuclear power plants, world-wide, reactor types	Nuclear reactor	Nuclear reactor telemonitoring system
Nucleon	Nucleus	Nuclide
Nuclide chart

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"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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2 pi-counter	4 pi-counter	Pair generation
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	Pi meson
Pinch effect	Pion	Plasma
Plateau	Plutonium	Poison
Poisoning	Pollux	Pool reactor
Positron	Power generation, Germany	Power generation, nuclear power plants in Germany
Power generation, nuclear power plants in Europe	Power generation, nuclear power plants world-wide	Power reactor
ppb	ppm	Pressure tube reactor
Pressure vessel	Pressurized water reactor	Primary energy
Primary energy consumption, Germany	Primary energy reserves	Proliferation
Proportional counter	Proton	Pulsed column
Pulsed reactor	Pure element	PUREX
PUREX process	PWR

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Quality assurance

Quality factor

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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, Germany	Radiation exposure, civilization-related, Germany
Radiation exposure, comparability, natural/ civilization-related	Radiation exposure, cosmic	Radiation exposure, dose limits, Germany
Radiation exposure, medical, Germany	Radiation exposure, natural	Radiation exposure, nuclear power plants, Germany
Radiation exposure, occupational, Germany	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
Radiology	Radiolysis	Radionuclide
Radionuclides, cosmogenic	Radionuclides, primordial	Radio-photoluminescence
Radioscopy	Radiotherapy	Radiotoxicity
Radium	Radon	Range, medium free
Rasmussen report	Ratemeter	RBMK
RBW	rd	RDB
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 nuclide
Reference threshold	Reflector	Relative biological effect
rem	Reprocessing	Reprocessing Plant Karlsruhe
Reprocessing plants, world-wide	Research reactor	Residual risk
Residual heat	Resistance to leaching	Rest energy
Rest mass	Risk	Risk study
roentgen	Rupture protection

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Safeguard	Safety barriers	Safety report
Saturated steam	Scattering	Scattering, inelastic
Scintillation counter	Scintillator	Scram
Secondary coolant	Secondary cooling system	Secondary energy
Seismic qualification	Self-absorption	Self-heating
Sellafield	Semi-conductor counter	Separating plant
Separation factor	Separation nozzle process	Separative work
Shield, biological	Shield, thermal	Shielding
Shim rod	Shipper/receiver difference	Short-lived radionuclides
Short-time dispersion	Shutdown reactivity	Shutdown rod
Sievert	Single failure	Skin dose
Skyshine	SNR-300	Soft tissue
Solidification	Solvent extraction	Source material
Spallation	Spark chamber	Spin
SSK	State collecting facilities	State, excited
Steam bubble coefficient	Stellarator	Stochastic radiation effect
Storage ring	Subcritical arrangement	Subcritical mass
Suitable for ultimate waste disposal	Supercritical arrangement	Supercritical reactor
SUR-100	Synchro-cyclotron	Synchrotron

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Tail-end	Tandem accelerator	Target
TBP	Temperature coefficient of reactivity	Terrestrial radiation
Thermal breeding reactor	Thermal column	Thermionic conversion
Thermoluminescence dosimeter	Thermonuclear reaction	THORP
Three Mile Island	Threshold detector	Threshold dose
THTR-300	Time-of-flight analyzer	Tissue equivalent
Tissue weighting factor	TLD	Tokamak
Traceability limit	Tracer	Transients
Transmutation	Transport of radioactive substances	Transuranium element
Tributyl phosphate	TRIGA	Trip
Tritium	Triton

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Ultimate waste disposal, direct	Ultimate waste disposal, Germany	UNSCEAR
Uranium	Uranium hexafluoride (UF6)	Uranium mining, global
Uranium resources	Uranium separative work	Uranium, depleted
Uranium, enriched	Uranyl nitrate	Useful energy
UTA	Utilization ratio

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VAK	Van de Graaff generator	Vitrification
Vitrification plant Karlsruhe	Void effect

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WAK	Waste heat	Waste management
Waste processing	Waste water path	Waste, radioactive
Waste, radioactive, classification	Waste, radioactive, from nuclear power plants	Waste, radioactive, volume
Waste, radioactive, volume reduction	Weighting factor	Wet cooling tower
Wet steam	Wet storage	Whole-body dose
Wigner effect	Wigner energy	Wipe test

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Xenon poisoning

X-radiation

X-ray treatment

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Yellow cake

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Zero effect

Zero power reactor

Zircaloy

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