- ACRP
- Advisory Committee on Radiological Protection
- ACNS
- Advisory Committee on Nuclear Safety
- AD
- Anno Domini
- AEC Act
- Atomic Energy Control Act (now NSCAct)
- AECB
- Atomic Energy Control Board (now CNSC)
- AECL
- Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
- AIDS
- Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome
- ALARA
- As Low As Reasonably Achievable
- BEIR
- Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation
- CANDU
- Canada Deuterium Uranium
- CAP
- Community Agreement in Principle
- CEAA
- Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
- CGE
- Canadian General Electric
- CBC
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- CCNR
- Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
- CLG
- Community Liaison Group
- CNA
- Canadian Nuclear Association
- CNS
- Canadian Nuclear Society
- CNSC
- Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (formerly AECB)
- CN Tower
- Canada's National Tower, (formerly Canadian National Tower)
- COG
- CANDU Owners Group
- DAD
- Decide, Announce, Defend
- D.C.
- District of Columbia
- DDT
- Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
- DNA
- DeoxyriboNucleic Acid
- DPRK
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- EIS
- Environment Impact Statement
- EMR
- Energy, Mines and Resources
- FBR
- Fast Breeder Reactor
- FEARO
- Federal Environmental Assessment Review Office
- GDP
- Gross Domestic Product
- HIV
- Human Immune Virus
- IAEA
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- ICRP
- International Commission on Radiological Protection
- IIPA
- Independent, Integrated Performance Assessment
- IO
- Implementing Organization
- IPPANI
- Interfaith Program for Awareness in Nuclear Issues
- LNTH
- Linear Non-Threshold Hypothesis
- LWR
- Light Water Reactor
- MOX fuel
- Mixed Oxides fuel
- NEA
- Nuclear Energy Agency
- NIMBY
- Not In My Back Yard
- NPT
- Non-Proliferation Treaty
- NRC
- National Research Council
- NRX Reactor
- National Research Experimental Reactor
- NSC Act
- Nuclear Safety and Control Act (formerly AEC Act)
- OECD
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- ONSR
- Ontario Nuclear Safety Review
- OPG Inc.
- Ontario Power Generation Inc. (formerly OH)
- OH
- Ontario Hydro (now OPG)
- PEI
- Prince Edward Island
- QA
- Quality Assurance
- R&D
- Research and Development
- RBMK
- Russian for "Large Reactor with Tubes"
- SER
- Significant Effect Report
- SRG
- Scientific Review Group
- STF
- Siting Task Force
- TMI
- Three Mile Island
- UFFI
- Urea Formaldehyde Foam Insulation
- U.K.
- United Kingdom
- UN
- United Nations
- UNSCEAR
- United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
- U.S.
- United States
- U.S. AEC
- United States' Atomic Energy Commission
- U.S. NRC
- United States' Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- U.S.S.R.
- Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
- WEC
- World Energy Council
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