| Acronym | Meaning |
| AEC | Area Of Environmental Concern |
| CIS | Chemical Information System |
| QEL | Quantity Exclusion Limit |
| TSC | Thermal Stimulated Current |
| EMMA | Energy-dispersive Miniprobe Multielement Analyzer |
| ICC | Interstitial Cells Of Cajal |
| HLW | High-Level Waste |
| FAS | Fatty Alcohol Sulfates (surfactants) |
| ORSTB | Overlap-reduced Semiempirical Tight-binding |
| ACHRE | Advisory Committee On Human Radiation Experiments |