5. Glossary

LOCA (Loss of Primary Coolant Accident)

Accident caused by a pipe breach in the primary circuit of a water-cooled nuclear reactor.

AREVA

French multinational in the energy sector, mainly active in the nuclear business, which designed the PWRs for France's nuclear power plants and operates the French fuel cycle plants (enrichment, fabrication, reprocessing).

ASTEC (Accident Source Term Evaluation Code)

Software jointly developed by IRSN and GRS to simulate all the phenomena that could occur during a core meltdown accident in a water-cooled nuclear reactor.

CEA (French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission)

French public scientific research organization in the fields of energy, defense, information technology,...