| Acronym | Meaning |
| PTS | Pressurized Thermal Shock |
| CNRF | Cold Neutron Research Facility |
| COLD | Computer Output To Laser Disk |
| CST | Charcoal Sorbent Tubes |
| GDOS | Glow Discharge Optical Spectroscopy |
| FRAM | Fine Resolution Antarctic Model |
| SOPHF | Spin And Orbital Polarized Hartree-Fock |
| CDS/ISIS | CDS/Integrated Set Of Information System |
| VDI | Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (German Engineers Society) |
| GFPE | Generalized Fokker-Planck Equation |