Acronyms and abbreviations
- ADM
- Assistant Deputy Minister
- AECL
- Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
- AIM
- Abnormal Incident Manual
- ALARA
- 'As low as reasonably achievable'
- AMG
- Assurance Monitoring Group
- AGPWMGP
- Assurance/General Province-Wide Monitoring Group Plan
- BWR
- Boiling Water (nuclear) Reactor
- CANDU
- The name of the Canadian developed nuclear power reactor system
(from Canada Deuterium Uranium) - CCEM
- Cabinet Committee on Emergency Management
- CEMC
- Community Emergency Management Coordinator
- CEM
- Commissioner of Emergency Management
- CESC
- Corporate Emergency Support Centre
- CEOC
- Community Emergency Operations Centre
- CEOF
- Corporate Emergency Operations Facility
- CNSC
- Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
- CRC
- Corporate Response Centre
- CRL
- Chalk River Laboratories
- CZ
- Contiguous Zone
- DNGS
- Darlington Nuclear Generating Station
- EB
- Emergency Bulletin
- ECI
- Emergency Coolant Injection
- EFADS
- Emergency Filtered Air Discharge System
- EMCPA
- Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act
- EIC
- Emergency Information Centre
- EI
- Emergency Information
- EIS
- Emergency Information Section
- EMO
- Emergency Management Ontario
- ENERGY
- Ministry of Energy
- EOC
- Emergency Operations Centre
- EPZ
- Emergency Planning Zone
- ERAP
- Emergency Response Assistance Plan
- ER
- Emergency Response
- ERMG
- Environmental Radiation Monitoring Group
- FADS
- Filtered Air Discharge System
- FDA
- Food and Drug Administration
- FNEP
- Federal Nuclear Emergency Plan
- GOC
- Government Operations Centre
- Gy
- Gray. See definition of Absorbed Dose in Glossary, Annex C
- HAZMAT
- Hazardous Material
- HC
- Health Canada
- IAEA
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- INES
- International Nuclear Event Scale
- JTCC
- Joint Traffic Control Centre
- JTCP
- Joint Traffic Control Plan
- KI
- Potassium Iodide
- km
- Kilometre
- LGIC
- Lieutenant Governor In Council
- LHDR
- Laurentian Hills/Deep River
- LHDRNEPC- Laurentian Hills/Deep River Nuclear Emergency Preparedness Committee
- LOCA
- Loss-of-Coolant Accident
- LOECI
- Loss of Emergency Coolant Injection
- MCSCS
- Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services
- MCSS
- Ministry of Community and Social Services
- MDU
- Monitoring & Decontamination Unit
- MEMC
- Ministry Emergency Management Coordinator
- MEOC
- Ministry Emergency Operations Centre
- Met
- Meteorology, meteorological
- MMAH
- Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
- MNDMF
- Ministry of Northern Development Mines and Forestry
- MNR
- Ministry of Natural Resources
- MOE
- Ministry of the Environment
- MOHLTC
- Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
- MOL
- Ministry of Labour
- mSv
- Millisievert
- MTO
- Ministry of Transportation, Ontario
- NIG
- Nuclear Incident Group
- NEMCC
- Nuclear Emergency Management Coordinating Committee
- OMAFRA
- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
- OPG
- Ontario Power Generation
- OPP
- Ontario Provincial Police
- PAL
- Protective Action Level
- PNERP
- Provincial Nuclear Emergency Response Plan
- PNGS
- Pickering Nuclear Generating Station
- PWR
- Pressurized Water (nuclear) Reactor
- PHWR
- Pressurized Heavy Water (nuclear) Reactor
- PEOC
- Provincial Emergency Operations Centre
- PZ
- Primary Zone
- rad
- See definition of Absorbed Dose in Glossary, Annex C
- RAG
- Regional Action Group
- RD
- Radiological Device
- RDD
- Radiological Dispersal Device
- rem
- See definition of Equivalent Dose in Glossary, Annex C
- RHRP
- Radiation Health Response Plan
- RNEMCC
- Regional Nuclear Emergency Management Coordinating Committee
- SRP
- Site Reference Plan
- SMC
- Site Management Centre
- Sv
- Sievert. See definition of Equivalent Dose in Glossary, Annex C
- SZ
- Secondary Zone
- TRF
- Tritium Removal Facility
- TLD
- Thermoluminescent Dosimeter
- UTM
- Universal Transverse Mercator
- WHO
- World Health Organization
Updated: January 19, 2024
Published: September 17, 2021