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Panel Report
Addendum: List of Abbreviations
- 4Rs
- reduce, re-use, recycle, recover
- AECB
- Atomic Energy Control Board
- AECL
- Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
- ALARA
- as low as reasonably achievable
- BELLE
- Biological Effects of Low-level Exposures
- BFS
- (Germany) The Federal Agency for Radiation Protection
- CANDU
- Canada Deuterium Uranium
- CCME
- Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment
- CEN/SCK
- Belgian Nuclear Waste Management Authorities
- CEPA
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act
- CLAB
- (Sweden) Central Interim Storage Facility
- CLG
- Community Liaison Group
- CNSC
- Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
- COVRA
- (the Netherlands) The Central Organization for Radioactive Waste
- EC
- exclusion criteria
- EIS
- environmental impact statement
- EMR
- Department of Energy, Mines and Resources
- IO
- implementing organization
- IAEA
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- ICRP
- International Commission on Radiation Protection
- KBS-3
- multi-barrier nuclear fuel waste disposal concept
- MC
- municipal council
- MOX
- mixed oxide
- mSv
- millisievert
- NAGRA
- (Switzerland) National Co-operative for Storage of Nuclear Waste
- NFWMA
- Nuclear Fuel Waste Management Agency
- NIREX
- (United Kingdom) The Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive
- NRCan
- Natural Resources Canada
- NRC
- (United States) Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- OCRWM
- (United States) Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
- OECD/NEA
- Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development
- ONDRAF/NIRAS
- (Belgium) The National Agency for Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Materials
- ORT
- organization responsible of transportation
- PACs
- potentially affected communities
- the Panel
- Nuclear Fuel Waste Management and Disposal Concept Environmental Assessment Panel
- probability density function
- PHC
- potential host community
- R-104
- AECB Regulatory Policy Statement - Regulatory Objectives, Requirements and Guidelines for the Disposal of Radioactive Wastes - Long-term Aspects
- R-71
- AECB Regulatory Policy Statement - Deep Geological Disposal of Nuclear Fuel Waste: Background Information and Regulatory Requirements Regarding the Concept Assessment Phase
- R-72
- AECB Regulatory Guide - Geological Considerations in Siting a Repository for Underground Disposal of High-level Radioactive Waste
- R-90
- AECB Regulatory Policy Statement - Policy on the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities
- RERF
- Radiation Effects Research Foundation
- RWMAC
- (United Kingdom) Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee
- SKB
- Swedish Nuclear Fuel Waste and Management Company
- SKI
- Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate
- SRG
- Scientific Review Group
- STF
- Siting Task Force
- SYVAC
- Systems Variability Analysis Code
- TAC
- Technical Advisory Committee (to AECL)
- UNSCEAR
- United Nations Science Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
- WIPP
- (United States) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
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- Executive Summary
- 1.0 Outline of the Review Process
- 2.0 The Nature of the Problem
- 3.0 The AECL Concept: Description, Performance Assessment Analyses and Implications
- 4.0 Criteria for Safety and Acceptability
- 5.0 Safety and Acceptability of the AECL Concept
- 6.0 Future Steps
- 7.0 Matters Outside the Mandate
- Appendix A - Terms of Reference: Environmental Assessment Panel
- Appendix B - Members of the Panel
- Appendix C - Terms of Reference: Scientific Review Group
- Appendix D - Memebers of the Scientific Review Group
- Appendix E - Chronology of Panel Activities
- Appendix F - List of Submissions to Panel at Public Hearings
- Appendix G - Bibliography of Key Review Documents
- Appendix H - Radiation Hazards: A Review
- Appendix I - The Federal Government's Radioactive Waste Policy Framework
- Appendix J - Comparison with Management of Other Wastes
- Appendix K - International Experience
- Appendix L - Various Approaches to Long-Term Management of Nuclear Fuel Wastes
- Appendix M - Summary of Siting Steps Presented in the EIS
- Appendix N - Implications of a Facility Based on the AECL Concept
- Appendix O - Details of a Siting Process Proposed by the Panel
- Appendix P - Issues for Consideration during a Public Review of AECB Regulatory Documents
- Appendix Q - Acknowledgements
- Addendum: List of Abbreviations
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