| Acronym | Meaning |
| BAL | Broad Absorption Line |
| LEU | Low Enrichment Uranium |
| SALDI | Surface-assisted Laser Desorption/ionization |
| CAM | Computer-aided Manufacturing |
| BAC-MP4 | Bond-additivity-corrected Moeller-Plesset 4th-order Perturbation |
| IAES | Ion Excited Auger Electron Spectroscopy |
| GAPT | Generalized Atomic Polar Tensor |
| NIGA | Neutron Induced Gamma Activity |
| MILES | Micro In Situ Laser Extraction System |
| DFMFT | Density-functional Mean-field Theory |