| Acronym | Meaning |
| RTA | Rapid Thermal Annealing |
| BCSCO | Bismuth Calcium Strontium Copper Oxide |
| CFA | Component Failure Analysis |
| BNFL | British Nuclear Fuels Laboratory |
| SILAR | Successive Ionic Layer Adsorption And Reaction |
| SCPOM | Self-consistent Projecton Operator Method |
| ASPG | Antisymmetrized Product Of Separated Geminals Approxn. |
| BIXE | Bombardment-induced X-ray Emission |
| EAPFS | Extended Appearance-potential Fine-structure Spectroscopy |
| CAP | Compliance Audit Program |