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Index of Terms

Accidental Gain
Acquisition path analysis
Acquisition strategy
Active interrogation
Advanced Experimental Fuel Counter (AEFC)
Advanced Safeguards Methods (Next Generation Safeguards Initiative)
AFR storage sites
Alpha spectrometry
Americium
Anomaly
Assay
Assurance of non-diversion of nuclear material
Assurance of the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities
Authentication
Baseline environmental signature
batch
Batch Data
Bulk Accounting
Bulk analysis
Bulk handling facility
Bulk measurement
Burnup
Calibration
Calorimetry
CANDU Bundle Verifier (CBVB)
CANDU core discharge monitor (VIFC)
CANDU spent fuel bundle counter (VIFB)
CANDU VIFM 'yes/no' monitor (VIFD)
CANDU VXI integrated fuel monitor (VIFM)
Cap seal (CAPS)
Cask radiation profiling system for dry storage casks (CRPS)
Cerenkov radiation
Cerenkov radiation detection
Cf-252 Interrogation with Prompt Neutrons (CIPN)
Chemical titration
Closed-down facility (or closed-down location outside facilities)
Composite sample
Compton Dry Cask Imaging System (CDCIS)
Containment
Containment/surveillance device (C/S device)
Containment/surveillance measures (C/S measures)
Containment/surveillance results (C/S results)
Containment/surveillance technical capability (C/S technical capability)
Continuity of knowledge
Control sample
Controlled potential coulometry
Conversion plant
Conversion time
Cooling time
Cross-contamination
Cumulative MUF
Cumulative SRD
Declaration pursuant to an additional protocol
Decommissioned facility (or decommissioned location outside facilities)
Delayed Gamma (DG)
Delayed Neutrons (DN)
Depleted uranium
Design information
Design Information Verification (DIV)
Destructive analysis (DA)
Detection probability
Detection time
Deuterium and heavy water
Differential Die-Away (DDA)
Differential Die-Away Self-Interrogation (DDSI)
Direct use material
Diversion (of nuclear material)
Diversion path analysis
Diversion rate
Diversion scenario
Diversion strategy
Dry cask storage
Electronic optical sealing system (EOSS)
Encryption
Enriched uranium
Enrichment
Enrichment plant (or isotope separation plant)
Equipment state of health data
Facility life cycle
Facility type
Fast reactor
Feed material
Fertile material
Fission track analysis
Fissionable material
Fork detector irradiated fuel measuring system (FDET)
Fuel fabrication plant
Fuel Transfer Video (FTPV)
Gamma ray scanning
Gamma ray spectrometry
Gas mass spectrometry
Geological repository
Graphite moderated reactor
Gravimetric analysis
Heavy water production plant
Heavy water reactor (HWR)
High enriched uranium (HEU)
Hold-up
IAEA Annual Report
IAEA Categorization of Radiological Material
IAEA interim inventory verification
IAEA inventory verification
IAEA physical inventory verification (PIV)
IAEA Safeguards Approach
IAEA Safeguards Information System (ISIS)
IAEA timeliness detection goal
Illicit Trafficking Database
Independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI)
Indirect use material
Initial report
Integrated safeguards
Intermediate product
Irradiated fuel attribute tester (IRAT)
Irradiation (or power) history
Isotope
Isotope dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS)
Item accounting
Item facility
JRC CANDU sealing system (JCSS)
K-edge densitometry
Key measurement point (KMP)
Light water reactor (LWR)
Low enriched uranium (LEU)
Mass spectrometry
Material balance area (MBA)
Material balance period (MBP)
Material balance report (MBR)
Material category
Material form
Material unaccounted for (MUF)
Matrix
Measurement system
Mixed oxide (MOX)
Mobile monitoring system for container transport (MMCT)
Mobile Unit for Neutron Detection (MUND)
Monitor
MVDS
Natural uranium
Neptunium
Network of Analytical Laboratories (NWAL)
Neutron and gamma attribute tester (NGAT)
Neutron coincidence counting
Neutron counting
Neutron multiplicity counter
Next Generation of surveillance system (NGSS)
Non-compliance
Non-destructive assay (NDA)
Nuclear fuel cycle
Nuclear fuel cycle related research and development activities
Nuclear Loss
Nuclear material
Nuclear material accountancy
Nuclear material accounting
Nuclear-grade graphite
Nuclear-related dual-use item
Nuclide
Objectives of IAEA Safeguards
Off-load refuelled power reactor
On-load refuelled power reactor (OLR)
Open source information
Operating report
Optical surveillance device
Partial Defect Detector (PDET)
Particle analysis
Passive interrogation
Passive Neutron Albedo Reactivity (PNAR)
Physical inventory
Physical inventory listing (PIL)
Physical model of a nuclear fuel cycle
Plutonium
Point sample
Power reactor
Primary standard
Product
Random sampling
Reactor
Reference material
Remote monitoring
Representative sample
Reprocessing plant
Resin bead technique
Safeguards Analytical Laboratory (SAL)
Safeguards conclusions
Safeguards effectiveness evaluation
Safeguards information
Safeguards measures
Safeguards MOX Python System (SMOPY)
Safeguards State evaluation
Safeguards State evaluation report
Sample
Sampling kit
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
Scintillation detector
Scope of IAEA safeguards
Scrap
Seal
Secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS)
Secondary standard
Self-Interrogation Neutron Resonance Densitometry (SINRD)
Semiconductor detector
Shipper/receiver difference (SRD)
Significant quantity
Silo Entry Gamma Monitor (SEGM)
Source material
Special fissionable material
Specified non-nuclear material
Spent fuel attribute tester (SFAT)
Spent fuel coincident counter (SFCC)
Spent fuel pool
Spent fuel signatures
Spent nuclear fuel
State System of Accounting for and Control of Nuclear Material
State-level safeguards approach
Storage facility
Strategic point
stratum
Surveillance
Surveillance review system
Swipe sampling
System of containment/surveillance measures (C/S system)
Systematic sampling
Tag
Tamper resistance
Thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS)
Thorium
Transportation cask
Ultrasonic sealing bolt (USSB)
Unattended monitoring
Unattended Spent Fuel Monitor (UFSM)
Undeclared activities
Undeclared nuclear material
Underwater television (UWTV)
Uranium
Uranium mine and concentration (ore processing) plant
Uranium-233
Variable coding sealing system electronic seal (VACOSS-S)
Vulnerability assessment
Waste
Zircaloy

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