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| Term | Definition |
| ASKRO | Automated radiation monitoring system |
| LNPS | Low-capacity nuclear power station |
| ACS DEP | Automated Control System for Design Engineering Pre-production |
| NPP | Nuclear power station, an industrial facility that generates electric power |
| BN | Fast neutron reactor where sodium is the carrier in the first and second loop and water and vapor in the third loop. In Russia, operated at Beloyarsk NPP |
| VVER | Water — water energy reactor |
| HEU | Highly enriched uranium |
| GC | Gas centrifuge |
| SA | Subsidiaries and affiliates |
| DPKR | Department of Legal and Corporate Operations of the ROSATOM State Corporation |
| UIPS | Uniform Industrial Procurement Standard of the ROSATOM State Corporation |
| SWU | Separation work unit |
| USLR | Unified System of Labor Remuneration |
| LC | Life cycle |
| CATU | Closed Administrative Territorial Unit |
| RR | Research reactor |
| IMS | Integrated Management System for Quality, Environment and Safety |
| ITER | International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor built on basis of a tokomak by an international group of scientists under the aegis of IAEA. It is supposed to be a type of the world's first DEMO thermonuclear power plant |
| I&C | Instrumentation and controls |
| KPI | Key performance indicators |
| CRMS | Corporate Risk Management System |
| KETVS | Combined experimental fuel assembly |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), international controlling body monitoring the observance of nuclear safety and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in the world |
| MW | Megawatt — unit of power equaling to 106 Watts. MW(e) relates to electric power of a generator; MW(t) relates to thermal power of a reactor or heat source (e.g., the full thermal power of the reactor itself is generally three times higher than the electric power) |
| MOX-fuel | Mixed Oxide Nuclear Fuel (generally on basis of uranium and plutonium) |
| CU | Conversion unit |
| IIRS | International Integrated Reporting Standard |
| MFR | Fabrication-refabrication module |
| R&D | Research & Development |
| LEU | Low-enriched uranium |
| FE NFC | Front end of nuclear fuel cycle |
| STC | Scientific and Technical Council |
| EIAS | Environmental impact assessment study |
| DUHF | Depleted uranium hexafluoride |
| EDEC | Experimental demonstration energy complex |
| EP | Environment protection |
| SNF | Spent nuclear fuel |
| FNPP | Floating nuclear power plant |
| PTC | Permanent technical commission |
| SFI | Suggestion for Improvement |
| RPS | ROSATOM Production System |
| FCC | Fabrication and Refabrication of Close-Packed Fuel Cycle Center |
| RAW | Radioactive Waste |
| RBMK | High-power pressure-tube reactor — a type of single-loop power reactor where water is the heat carrier and graphite is the decelerator |
| RN | Radionuclides |
| RPRAEP | Trade Union of Nuclear Energy and Industry of Russia |
| SSC | Separation-Sublimation Complex |
| MSE | Managers, specialists, employees |
| RU | Reactor facility |
| ICS | Internal Control System |
| dpa (displacement per atom) | A unit of irradiation that serves as a physical basis for matching the levels of damage within reactors with varying neutron spectra and irradiation by various particles |
| SDIC | Special Department of Internal Control |
| JV | Joint Venture |
| EPLS | Emergency Prevention and Liquidation System (Facility Level) |
| TVS | Fuel assembly |
| TVS-KVADRAT | Name of a FA for PWR reactors developed in Russia |
| TVEL | Fuel element |
| TVEL FC Fuel Company | TVEL JSC and enterprises controlled by the Company and included in consolidated reports. |
| HPP | Heat and power plant |
| CFHC | Chlorofluorohydrocarbons |
| FMBA | Federal Medical and Biological Agency |
| FSFM | Federal Service for Financial Markets |
| FTP | Federal target program |
| GPR | Superheat pressure tube graphite power reactor (Bilibino NPP) |
| ETVS | Experimental fuel assembly |
| NRS | Nuclear and Radiation Safety |
| NF | Nuclear fuel |
| NRHS | Nuclear and radiation hazardous sites |
| NFC | Nuclear fuel cycle — a complex of measures for ensuring the functioning of nuclear energy engineering including extraction and processing of uranium ore, fuel fabrication, transportation to the NPP, storage and treatment of UNF. In the event of UNF burial, the NFC is called open; if fuel processing and reuse is provided, the cycle is closed |
| BWR | Boiling water reactor — a reactor that uses boiling water as heat carrier |
| EBITDA | Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization — an analytical indicator that means the amount of profit before income tax expense, interest and accumulated depreciation |
| INES | International Nuclear Event Scale |
| PR, GR | Public relations, Government relations |
| PWR | Pressurized water reactor — foreign design reactors that use pressurized water — analogue of VVER |