Broad Scope License: Licenses issued to large facilities
authorizing possession of a wide variety of radionuclides. (B&W)
Babcock & Wilcox: Major nuclear manufacturer and maker of
pressurized water nuclear reactors (PWRs), fuel rods etc.
(Comb.Eng.) Combustion Engineering: Maker of PWRs (DOE)
Department of Energy: Successor agency to Atomic Energy
Commission (AEC). Responsible for nuclear weapons and cleanup
programs/promoter of nuclear power. Curie: A quantity of nuclear
material undergoing 37 billion disintegrations per
second(equivalent to one gram of radium and named after Marie
Curie). Stored irradiated fuel contains approximately
25,000,000,000 (25 billion) curies. (DU) Depleted Uranium:
Uranium 238 left over after "enrichment." Massive quantities of
Depleted Uranium are used in ammunition and tank construction
creating a major contamination problem. (EPA) Environmental
Protection Agency: Responsible for rad-waste Super-Fund sites.
In the process of listing all known rad contaminated sites. Sets
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