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This list contains subjects important to nuclear energy research and regulation.

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Public domain sources: NRC glossary

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