ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
- AEC
- Atomic Energy Commission
- ALARA
- as low as reasonably achievable
- Am
- americium
- AQCR
- Air Quality Control Region
- ATTA
- Advanced Tactical Training Area
- C
- carbon
- CAA
- Clean Air Act
- Ce
- cerium
- CEQ
- Council on Environmental Quality
- CFR
- Code of Federal Regulations
- Cm
- curium
- Co
- cobalt
- Cs
- cesium
- CSEG
- Criticality Safety Evaluation Group
- CWA
- Clean Water Act
- D&D
- decontamination and decommissioning
- DNFSB
- Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
- DOE
- U.S. Department of Energy
- DOT
- U.S. Department of Transportation
- Du
- depleted uranium
- DWPF
- Defense Waste Processing Facility
- EIS
- environmental impact statement
- EPA
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- ERPG
- Emergency Response Planning Guideline
- ES&H
- Environment, Safety and Health
- Eu
- europium
- FFA
- Federal Facility Agreement
- FFCA
- Federal Facilities Compliance Agreement
- FR
- Federal Register
- FWS
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- H
- hydrogen
- H-3
- tritium
- HEPA
- high-efficiency particulate air (filter)
- HEU
- highly enriched uranium
- HLW
- high-level waste
- I
- iodine
- IAEA
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- ICRP
- International Commission on Radiological Protection
- IMNM
- Interim Management of Nuclear Materials
- lcf
- latent cancer fatality
- LEU
- low enriched uranium
- MEI
- maximally exposed individual
- mrem
- millirem (1/1000 rem)
- NAAQS
- National Ambient Air Quality Standard
- NASA
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NCRP
- National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
- NCSE
- Nuclear Criticality Safety Evaluations
- NEPA
- National Environmental Policy Act
- Ni
- nickel
- NIM
- Nuclear Incident Monitor
- Np
- neptunium
- NPDES
- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
- OSHA
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- PEL
- Permissible Exposure Limit
- Pu
- plutonium
- RBOF
- Receiving Basin for Offsite Fuel
- RCRA
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- rem
- roentgen equivalent man
- RINM
- reactor irradiated nuclear materials
- ROI
- region of influence
- Ru
- ruthenium
- S
- sulfur
- SAR
- Safety Analysis Report
- SCDHEC
- South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
- SNF
- spent nuclear fuel
- Sr
- strontium
- SREL
- Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
- SRS
- Savannah River Site
- SRTC
- Savannah River Technology Center
- TRU
- transuranic
- U
- uranium
- UNH
- uranyl nitrate hexahydrate
- USF
- Uranium Solidification Facility
- WSRC
- Westinghouse Savannah River Company
- Xe
- xenon
- Zr
- zirconium
Abbreviations for measurements
- cfm
- cubic feet per minute
- cfs
- cubic feet per second
- g
- acceleration due to gravity (seismology)
- L
- grams per liter
- gpm
- gallons per minute
- L
- liter
- lb
- pound
- km
- kilometer
- m
- meter
- mg
- milligram
- mo
- month
- mw
- megawatt
- pCi
- picocurie
- yr
- year
- m
- micron
- mCi
- microcurie
- mg
- microgram
- °C
- degrees Celsius
- °F
- degrees Fahrenheit
Metric System
Typically, scientific reports use metric units; therefore, this EIS presents metric units of measure (meters, liters, grams, etc.) rather than the more common U.S. Customary Units (feet, gallons, pounds, etc.). However, the text sections also provide U.S. Customary Units in parentheses for ease of understanding.
Many metric measurements presented include prefixes that denote a multiplication factor that is applied to the base standard (e.g., 1 kilometer = 1,000 meters). The following list presents these metric prefixes:
mega 1,000,000 (l06; one million)
kilo l,000 (103; one thousand)
hecto 100 (102; one hundred)
centi 0.01 (10-2; one one-hundredth)
milli 0.001 (10-3; one one-thousandth)
micro 0.000001 (10-6; one one-millionth)
nano 0.000000001 (10-9; one one-billionth)
pico 0.000000000001 (10-12; one one-quadrillionth)
DOE Order 5900.2A, "Use of the Metric System of Measurement" (3/26/92) prescribes the use of this system in DOE documents. The following list presents conversion factors for the metric units used in this EIS as an aid to readers who are more familiar with U.S. Customary Units.
Conversion from Metric to U.S. Customary Units
1 meter = 3.281 feet = 39.37 inches = 1.094 yards
1 kilometer = 0.6214 mile
1 square meter = 10.764 square feet
1 square kilometer = 0.3861 square mile = 247.1 acres
1 liter = 61.025 cubic inches = 0.2642 gallon
1 cubic meter = 35.31 cubic feet = 1.308 cubic yards = 264.2 gallons
Discharge
1 cubic meter per second = 35.31 cubic feet per second = 15,850.3 gallons per minute
Mass
1 kilogram = 2.205 pounds (mass)
1 metric ton = 2,205 pounds = 1.1023 (short) tons
Pressure
1 Pascal = 0.02089 pound per square foot
1 kilogram (force) per square meter = 0.2048 pound (force) per square foot
Velocity
1 meter per second = 3.281 feet per second = 2.237 miles per hour
1 kilometer per hour = 0.6214 mile per hour
Temperature
°C to °F, °C × 1.8 + 32 (i.e., 20°C = 20 × 1.8 + 32 = 68°F)
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