Technical Terms

Acceptability

Acid rain

ALARA

Alpha particles

As Low As Reasonably Achievable

Atom

Availability

Big Five

Boiler

Calandria

Capacity factor

Chain reaction

Collective dose

Containment

Control rod

Core

Cosmic radiation

Critical group

Critical mass

Defence-in-depth

De minimis

Deuterium

DNA

Dose response

Electrons

Element

Enrich

Enriched uranium

Enrichment plants

Exclusion zone

Fertile

Fissile

Fission

Fissionable

Fission products

Fuel channel

Fuelling machine

Fusion

Gamma radiation

Global warming

Greenhouse effect

Greenhouse gas

Half-life

Heat transport system

Heavy water

Heavy-water plants

Historic wastes

Hormesis

ICRP

Initiator

International Nuclear Event Scale

Isotope

Light water

Linear NonThreshold Hypothesis

Liquid-metal fast breeder reactor

Low burnup

Material Unaccounted For

Millisievert

Moderator

MOX fuel

Natural uranium

Neutron

NIMBY effect

Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material

Nuclear fission

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Nuclear-weapons state

Nucleus

Population dose

Positive void effect

Pressure tube

Production reactor

Quality Assurance

Radiation

Radioactive

Radioactive decay

Radioisotope

Radon

Reactor operating wastes

Reprocessing plant

Risk

Safeguards

Safety

Safety culture

Serious accident

Severe accident

Shielding

Shut down

Shutdown system

Sievert

Significant Event Report

Steam generator

Supercritical

Tailings

Thorium

Transuranic

Tritium

Voluntarism

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