Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms

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Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms
A
A activity
A adenine
A ampere [unit of electric current]
Å angstrom
a atto [prefix for SI and metric units, 10-18]
a year
A maximum activity of special form radioactive (IAEA Transport
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material that can be transported in a Type A Regulations)
package
A maximum activity of any radioactive material other (IAEA Transport
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than special form radioactive material that can be Regulations)
transported in a Type A package
AAA awareness, appropriateness and audit
AAAID Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and
Development
AAA Program Advanced Accelerator Applications Program [In (USA)
2003 this developed into the Advanced Fuel Cycle
Initiative (AFCI).]
AAAS American Association for the Advancement of
Science
AAB Audit Advisory Board (India)
AAC Austrian Accreditation Council
AACB Association of African Central Banks
AACR Anglo–American Cataloguing Rules
AADFI Association of African Development Finance
Institutions
AAEA Arab Atomic Energy Agency
AAEC Australian Atomic Energy Commission [This was
replaced in 1987 by the Australian Nuclear Science
and Technology Organisation (ANSTO).]
AAEE American Academy of Environmental Engineers (USA)
AAEHC Afghan Atomic Energy High Commission
AAES American Association of Engineering Societies (USA)
AAFICS Australian Association of Former International
Civil Servants
AAIS Austrian Accident Insurance Scheme (IAEA)
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AALCO Asian–African Legal Consultative Organization
AAMCP Asian Association of Mutagenesis in Crop Plants
AAMD American Association of Medical Dosimetrists (Canada/USA)
AAMI Association for the Advancement of Medical (USA)
Instrumentation
AAP Assistance Action Plan
AAPG American Association of Petroleum Geologists (USA)
AAPM American Association of Physicists in Medicine
AARI Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Russian Federation)
AARINENA Association of Agricultural Research Institutions in
the Near East and North Africa
AAS American Astronomical Society (USA)
AAS atomic absorption spectrophotometer
AAS atomic absorption spectrophotometry
AASPE Armenian Association of Seismology and Physics
of the Earth
AAT African animal trypanosomosis
AATN Argentine Association of Nuclear Technology
Asociación Argentina de Tecnología Nuclear
AATPO Association of African Trade Promotion
Organizations
AAU Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)
AAU agricultural area in use
AAVP African AIDS Vaccine Programme (WHO/UNAIDS)
ABA abscisic acid
ABACC Brazilian–Argentine Agency for Accounting and
Control of Nuclear Materials Agencia Brasileño-
Argentina de Contabilidad y Control de Materiales
Nucleares
ABAEN Argentinian–Brazilian Agency for Nuclear Energy
Applications Agencia Argentino-Brasileña de
Aplicaciones de la Energía Nuclear
ABB [This is not regarded as an acronym, but is the form
that should be used as the company’s name.]
ABCC Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (USA)
ABEN Brazilian Nuclear Energy Association Associaçao
Brasileira de Energia Nuclear
Abidjan Convention for Cooperation in the Protection,
Convention Management and Development of the Marine and
Coastal Environment of the Atlantic Coast of the
West, Central and Southern Africa Region
ABL FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology (IAEA)

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Laboratory [This was disbanded in 2010.]
ABL FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology (IAEA)
Laboratories [This is the collective name given to
the five individual food and agriculture laboratories
that form part of the Joint Division.]
ABM anti-ballistic missile
ABM Treaty Treaty between the United States of America and
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the
Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems
ABPM Fire and Rescue Academy of Malaysia Akademi
Bomba dan Penyelamat Malaysia
ABRII Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of (Islamic Republic of
Iran Iran)
ABS American Brachytherapy Society (USA)
ABS anti-lock braking system
ABSC ABS Consulting (USA)
ABSP Burkina Faso Public Health Association
Association burkinabé de santé publique
ABSSA Beninese Food Safety Agency Agence béninoise de
la sécurité sanitaire des aliments
ABTR Advanced Burner Test Reactor (USA)
Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi Declaration on the Future of
Declaration Environmental Action in the Arab World [This
Declaration was issued in 2001 by the Council of
Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment
(CAMRE).]
ABWR advanced boiling water reactor
Ac actinium
AC alternating current
ACABQ Advisory Committee on Administrative and (United Nations)
Budgetary Questions
ACB Asian corn borer
ACC Administrative Committee on Coordination [This (United Nations)
was replaced by the United Nations System Chief
Executives Board for Coordination (CEB).]
ACC Cuban Academy of Sciences Academia de Ciencias
de Cuba
ACCA Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
AccApp International Topical Meeting on Nuclear (ANS/IAEA)
Applications of Accelerators
ACCOBAMS Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the
Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous

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Atlantic area
ACCP Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention
ACDA Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (USA)
ACDA Central African Agency for Agricultural (Central African
Development Agence centrafricaine de Republic)
développement agricole
ace acentric chromosome
ACE angiotensin converting enzyme
ACEP Asahi chemical exchange process
ACF Action Against Hunger
International
ACF activated carbon filter
ACFE Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
aCGH array comparative genomic hybridization
ACGME Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical (USA)
Education
AChE acetylcholinesterase
ACHPR African Commission on Human and People's
Rights
ACHR Advisory Committee on Health Research (WHO)
ACHS Chilean Safety Association Asociación Chilena de
Seguridad
ACI Airports Council International
ACIAR Australian Centre for International Agricultural
Research
ACL [This is not regarded as an acronym, but is the form
that should be used as the name of the company,
which no longer uses its former name Audit
Command Language.]
ACM adequacy of consumption measure
ACMP American College of Medical Physics
ACMV African cassava mosaic virus
ACNE African Commission on Nuclear Energy [Also
known as AFCONE.]
ACNW Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste (USA)
ACOMEN United Action Group of Nuclear Medicine in the (France)
South of France Groupe d'Action Concertée en
Médecine Nucléaire du Sud de la France
ACOPS Advisory Committee on Protection of the Sea
ACP American Centrifuge Plant (USA)
ACP Panama Canal Authority Autoridad del Canal de (Panama)
Panamá

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ACPAQ Advisory Committee on Post Adjustment Questions (United Nations)
[This committee was created by the International
Civil Service Commission (ICSC) in 1975.]
ACP-EC Partnership Agreement between the members of the
Partnership African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States of
Agreement the one part and the European Community and its
Member States of the other part [This is also known
as the Cotonou Agreement.]
ACP States African, Caribbean and Pacific States
ACPRO Radiological Protection Advisory and Control (Spain)
Service Asesoría y Control en Protección
Radiológica, S.L.
ACPSEM Australasian College of Physical Scientists and
Engineers in Medicine
ACR Advanced CANDU Reactor
ACR American College of Radiology
ACRI Australian Cotton Research Institute
ACRS Working Working Group on Arms Control and Regional
Group Security
ACS American Cancer Society (USA)
ACS American Chemical Society (USA)
ACS American College of Surgeons (USA)
ACS Association of Caribbean States
ACSAD Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry
Lands
ACSS Advisory Commission on Safety Standards [This (IAEA)
was replaced by the Commission on Safety
Standards (CSS).]
ACSV Advisory Committee on Safeguards and (IAEA)
Verification within the Framework of the IAEA
Statute [This Committee was established in 2005.]
ACT artemisinin-based combination therapy
ACTDO American Centrifuge Technology Demonstration (USA)
Agreement and Operations Agreement
ACTH adrenocorticotropic hormone
ACTMalaria Asian Collaborative Training Network for Malaria
ACUNS Academic Council on the United Nations System
ACUS Atlantic Council of the United States [This full
form and the abbreviation no longer appear to be
used and the entity just refers to itself as the
Atlantic Council.]
ACV Austria Center Vienna

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ACW anticlockwise
AD Active Directory (Computing)
AD Alzheimer's disease
AD aromatic diamidine
AD Aujeszky's disease
ADA Austrian Development Agency
ADAB Bahia State Agency for Animal Health and Plant (Brazil)
Protection Agência Estadual de Defesa
Agropecuária da Bahia
Adabas adaptable database system
ADAI Additional Deputy Comptroller and Auditor (India)
General
ADAM autonomous data acquisition module
ADAMS Agencywide Documents Access and Management (United States Nuclear
System Regulatory
Commission)
ADAVION Association of Friends and Volunteers of the (Panama)
National Oncology Institute Asociación de Amigos
y Voluntarios del Instituto Oncológico Nacional
ADB Asian Development Bank [The same acronym is
used for the African Development Bank. The
acronym AsDB is also sometimes used.]
ADB African Development Bank [This is part of the
African Development Bank Group (ADB
Group).The same acronym is used for the Asian
Development Bank. The acronym AfDB is now the
more widely used acronym.]
ADC analogue to digital converter
ADC Austrian Development Cooperation
ADCL accredited dosimetry calibration laboratory
ADCP Aquaculture Development and Coordination (FAO/UNDP)
Programme
ADD acute diarrhoeal disease
ADDIS Animal Disease Diagnosis Information System (IAEA)
ADEME French Environment and Energy Management (France)
Agency Agence de l’environnement et de la
maîtrise de l’énergie
ADENI Association for the Development of International (France)
Nuclear Instruction Association pour le
développement de l'enseignement nucléaire
international
ADEP Association for the Development of Earthquake (Japan)

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Prediction
ADF acid detergent fibre
ADF African Development Fund [This is part of the
African Development Bank Group (ADB Group).]
ADFIAP Association of Development Financing Institutions
in Asia and the Pacific
ADG Assistant Director General (IAEA)
ADI Investment Promotion Agency Agencia de (Argentina)
Desarrollo de Inversiones
ADIMAB Burkina Faso Medical Imaging Association
Association d'imagerie médicale au Burkina Faso
ADN European Agreement concerning the International
Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Inland Waterways
Accord européen relatif au transport international
des marchandises dangereuses par voies de
navigation intérieures [The acronym is derived
from the French keywords accord, dangereuses and
navigation.]
ADNR Regulations for the Carriage of Dangerous
Substances on the Rhine Règlement pour le
transport de matières dangereuses sur le Rhin [The
acronym indicates the link with the ADN acronym
with the R standing for Rhine.]
ADP adenosine diphosphate
ADP Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform (UNFCCC)
for Enhanced Action
ADP air displacement plethysmography
ADP automatic data processing
ADR European Agreement concerning the International
Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road Accord
européen relatif au transport international des
marchandises dangereuses par route [The acronym
is derived from the keywords accord/ agreement,
dangereuses/dangerous and route/road.]
ADRA Adventist Development and Relief Agency
ADS accelerator-driven system
ADS accelerator-driven subcritical system
ADS automatic depressurization system
AdSec Advisory Group on Nuclear Security (IAEA)
ADSS Administrative Support Section [This Section, (IAEA)
which was part of the Division of General Services
(MTGS), was replaced by the Travel and

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Transportation Section (TTS) with effect from 15
November 2004.]
ADTF Accelerator Driven Test Facility (USA)
ADU ammonium diuranate
AE acoustic emission
AE actual evapotranspiration
a.e. atom excess
AEA Atomic Energy Act (USA)
AEA Atomic Energy Authority [This was disbanded in (Sri Lanka)
November 2014.]
AEB Atomic Energy Board (Sri Lanka)
AEC Atomic Energy Commission (India)
AEC Atomic Energy Council (Uganda)
AECA Spanish Association of Accounting and Business (Spain)
Administration Asociación Española de
Contabilidad y Administración de Empresas
AECB Atomic Energy Control Board [This was replaced (Canada)
by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
(CNSC).]
AECC Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Complex (Russian Federation)
AECI Spanish Agency for International Cooperation
Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional
AECID Spanish Agency for International Development
Cooperation Agencia Española de Cooperación
Internacional para el Desarrollo
AECL Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
AECS Atomic Energy Commission of Syria
AED aerodynamic equivalent diameter
AEE Atomic Energy Establishment (Libya)
AEF advanced European fuel
AEGiS AIDS Education Global Information System
AEKI Atomic Energy Research Institute Atomenergia (Hungary)
Kutatóintézet [In January 2012 this merged with the
Institute of Isotopes to form the Centre for Energy
Research.]
AELB Atomic Energy Licensing Board (Malaysia)
AEM Atomenergomash (Russian Federation)
AEMC Atomic Energy Minerals Centre (Pakistan)
AEN Nuclear Energy Agency Agencia de Energía (Cuba)
Nuclear [The name was subsequently changed to
Agency for Nuclear Energy and Advanced
Technologies (AEN.T.A).]

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AEND Spanish Society for Non Destructive Testing (Spain)
Asociación Española de Ensayos No Destructivos
AENTA Agency for Nuclear Energy and Advanced (Cuba)
Technologies Agencia de Energía Nuclear y
Tecnologías de Avanzada [Name of the former
Nuclear Energy Agency (AEN).]
AEOI Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
AEP Atomenergoproekt (Russian Federation)
AEP Atomic Energy Power Corporation [Also known as (Russian Federation)
Atomenergoprom.]
AEP auditory evoked potential
AEPS Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy
AERB Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (India)
AERE Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Bangladesh)
AERL Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (Canada)
AES atomic emission spectroscopy
AESJ Atomic Energy Society of Japan
AET acoustic emission testing
AEW Atomic Energy Week (Philippines)
AEZ agro-ecological zone
AF audio frequency
AF Type A package design for fissile material (Type code defined in
IAEA Transport
Regulations)
AFA Association of Andalusian Foundations Asociación (Spain)
de Fundaciones Andaluzas
AFBC atmospheric fluidized bed combustion
AFBLCC France–Benin Cancer Control Association
Association franco-béninoise de lutte contre le
cancer
AFCI Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative [This was launched (USA)
in 2003 as a development of the AAA Program.]
AFCONE African Commission on Nuclear Energy [Also
known as ACNE.]
AFCR Advanced Fuel CANDU Reactor
AFCRN African Cancer Registry Network
AFD French Development Agency Agence française de (France)
développement
AfDB African Development Bank [This is now the more
usual acronym, rather than ADB, which is also
used for the Asian Development Bank.]
AFDC allowance for funds used during construction

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AFEMS Association of Medical Women of Senegal
Association des femmes médecins du Sénégal
AFESD Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
AFFA Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Australia)
[This is the old acronym when the word Australia
was tagged on the end. The new acronym is
DAFF.]
AFFF Advanced Fuel Fabrication Facility (India)
AFIMS Agency’s Financial Information Management (IAEA)
System [This was replaced by the Agency-wide
Information System for Programme Support.]
AFLP amplified fragment length polymorphism
AFMANENA Agricultural Food Marketing Association for the
Near East and North Africa
AFNI France International Nuclear Agency Agence (France)
France Nucléaire International
AFOMP Asia–Oceania Federation of Organizations for
Medical Physics
AFoSaN African Food Safety Network
AFP alphafetoprotein
AFR storage away-from-reactor storage
AFRA African Regional Co-operative Agreement for (Reproduced in IAEA
Research, Development and Training Related to document
Nuclear Science and Technology INCIRC/377)
AFRA NC AFRA National Coordinator
AFRA-NEST AFRA Network for Education in Science and (IAEA)
Technology
AFREC African Energy Commission
AfricaRice Africa Rice Center [Prior to 2003, this was known (CGIAR)
as the West Africa Rice Development Association.
In September 2009 the previous short form
WARDA was replaced by AfricaRice..]
AFRO WHO Regional Office for Africa
AFROG African Radiation Oncology Group
AFRONET African Radiation Oncology Network (IAEA)
AFROSAI African Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions
[This is one of the seven Regional Working Groups
of the International Organization of Supreme Audit
Institutions (INTOSAI).]
AFRRI Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (USA)
AFS American Assured Fuel Supply (USA)
AFSSA French Food Safety Agency Agence française de (France)

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